Bug 1339267

Summary: Windows 7 installer stuck on qemu-kvm-2.4.1-9.fc23
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Ladi Prosek <lprosek>
Component: qemuAssignee: Fedora Virtualization Maintainers <virt-maint>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 23CC: amit.shah, berrange, cfergeau, crobinso, dwmw2, itamar, lprosek, pbonzini, rjones, thebeardedhermit, virt-maint
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Last Closed: 2016-05-31 02:51:58 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Ladi Prosek 2016-05-24 13:59:37 UTC
Description of problem:
There is a regression in the recent qemu-kvm package which prevents Windows 7 guest OS from being installed.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
qemu-kvm-2.4.1-9.fc23

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot into Windows 7 x86 or x64 installer

Actual results:
Installer is stuck on the "Starting Windows" screen with the animation still going.

Expected results:
Installer makes progress.

Additional info:
blamed on CVE-2016-3710: incorrect bounds checking in vga (bz #1334345)

Comment 1 Cole Robinson 2016-05-26 13:39:07 UTC
*** Bug 1339268 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Cole Robinson 2016-05-26 13:39:42 UTC
commit 94ef4f337fb614f18b765a8e0e878a4c23cdedcd
Author: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel>
Date:   Tue May 17 10:54:54 2016 +0200

    vga: add sr_vbe register set

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2016-05-26 17:27:12 UTC
qemu-2.4.1-10.fc23 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 23. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-07eca37ea0

Comment 4 Shaun Assam 2016-05-27 20:53:00 UTC
The submitted update works for me.  Windows 7 installer passes boot screen and is running normal.

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2016-05-28 03:26:07 UTC
qemu-2.4.1-10.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-07eca37ea0

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2016-05-31 02:50:45 UTC
qemu-2.4.1-10.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.