[Qemu-discuss] Antw: Blue screen error on windows server 2008 and 2012

[Steffen Weißgerber]

Hi,

did you ever thought about using an actual version of qemu?

Version 2.7 is stable at the moment, I think, and should handle
Windows VM much better than older version.

Regards

Steffen




>>> "John Y." <address@hidden> schrieb am Sonntag, 9. Oktober 2016 um
03:21:
> I have two hosts.
> 
> Host A:
> Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v2 @ 2.80GHz
> 2CPUS
> 10 cores and 2 thread per cpu.
> 
> Host B:
> Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU  L5520  @ 2.27GHz
> 2CPUS
> 4 cores and 2 thread per cpu.
> 
> In host B, I run a windows 2012 vm , double click a exe file inside vm and
> I got a blue screen error.
> 
> error code : KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED
> 
> I use the same image to create a vm in host A, I can open the exe file
> inside vm and everything is ok.
> 
> I had try:
> 1. use "<cpu mode="host-model"/>" instead of "<cpu
> mode="host-passthrough"/> "
> 2. use qemu2.5 instead of /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm(1.5.3)
> 
> Any idea?
> 
> Host :
> Linux hostA 4.2.0-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64
> 
> #virsh version
> Compiled against library: libvirt 1.2.8
> Using library: libvirt 1.2.8
> Using API: QEMU 1.2.8
> Running hypervisor: QEMU 1.5.3
> 
> 
> #cat libvirl.xml
> 
> <domain xmlns:qemu="http://libvirt.org/schemas/domain/qemu/1.0"; type="kvm">
> 
>   <name>test</name>
>   <description>test</description>
>   <os>
>     <type>hvm</type>
>     <boot dev="hd"/>
>   </os>
>   <features>
>     <acpi/>
>   </features>
>   <clock offset="localtime"/>
>   <on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff>
>   <on_reboot>restart</on_reboot>
>   <on_crash>destroy</on_crash>
>   <vcpu current="2">2</vcpu>
>   <cpu mode="host-passthrough"/>
>   <memory>2097152</memory>
>   <currentMemory>2097152</currentMemory>
>   <devices>
>     <emulator/>
>     <disk device="disk" type="file">
>       <driver name="qemu" type="qcow2" cache="none"/>
>       <source file="/home/test.qcow2"/>
>       <target bus="virtio" dev="vda"/>
>     </disk>
>     <disk type="file" device="cdrom">
>       <source dev=""/>
>       <target dev="hdc" bus="ide"/>
>     </disk>
>     <serial type="pty">
>       <source path="/dev/pts/1"/>
>       <target port="0"/>
>     </serial>
>     <input type="tablet" bus="usb"/>
>     <input type="mouse" bus="ps2"/>
>     <graphics type="vnc" port="-1" autoport="yes" keymap="en-us"
> listen="0.0.0.0"/>
>     <channel type="unix">
>       <source mode="bind"
> path="/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/test.org.qemu.guest_agent.0"/>
>       <target type="virtio" name="org.qemu.guest_agent.0"/>
>     </channel>
>   </devices>
>   <qemu:commandline></qemu:commandline>
> </domain>
> 
> 
> # qemu-img info /home/test.qcow2
> image: /home/test.qcow2
> file format: qcow2
> virtual size: 50G (53687091200 bytes)
> disk size: 0
> cluster_size: 65536
> backing file: /home/windows2012.raw
> Format specific information:
>     compat: 1.1
>     lazy refcounts: false
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> John


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