Re: [Qemu-devel] Qemu: Guest Linux hangs on Mac OS X 10.11

[Peter Maydell]

On 16 October 2015 at 08:32, Aaron Elkins <address@hidden> wrote:
> I built Qemu on Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan with:
>
>         ./configure
>         make
>         make install
>
> Successfully.
>
> And downloaded the official linux image, and ran it with the following:
>
>         qemu-system-x86_64 -drive 
> file=linux-0.2.img,index=0,media=disk,format=raw
>
> And then got the following warnings and the guest linux can not response to 
> keyboard and freezes for a period of time, and this issue repeated forever 
> while the guest linux was running.
>
>         main-loop: WARNING: I/O thread spun for 1000 iterations
>
> Any idea?

I've been able to reproduce this on my Yosemite system (only
with debugging disabled, annoyingly.) Not sure why it's doing
it yet, though...

(Note to Paolo: if I disable the 'suppress second notifications'
code it prints the warning forever.)

-- PMM