Bug 706379

Summary: guest kernel panic when starting installation on amd host
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Xiaoqing Wei <xwei>
Component: kvmAssignee: Virtualization Maintenance <virt-maint>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: medium    
Version: 5.7CC: gleb, juzhang, michen, mkenneth, shuang, virt-maint
Target Milestone: rc   
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Hardware: Unspecified   
OS: Linux   
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Last Closed: 2011-05-30 11:27:25 UTC Type: ---
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Description Xiaoqing Wei 2011-05-20 10:38:12 UTC
Created attachment 500031 [details]
kernel panic snapshot

Description of problem:

kernel panic when install rhel5.7 guest on amd host

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kvm-83-232.el5

How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1.perform a rhel5.7 installation by :
qemu-kvm  -name 'vm1' .. -serial unix:'/tmp/serial-20110519-235132-PkOs',server,nowait -drive file='5.7-32-virtio.qcow2',index=0,if=virtio,\
 -net nic,vlan=0,model=virtio,macaddr='9a:d9:0e:2d:a5:34' \
-net tap,vlan=0,ifname='t0-235132-PkOs',script='qemu-ifup-switch',downscript='no' \
-m 4096 -smp 2,cores=1,threads=1,sockets=2 \
-drive file='5.7-i386-DVD.iso',media=cdrom,index=1 \
-drive file='ks.iso',media=cdrom,index=2 \
-cpu qemu64,+sse2 -soundhw ac97 \
-kernel '/vmlinuz' -initrd '/initrd.img' \
-spice port=8000,disable-ticketing -qxl 1 -rtc-td-hack -M rhel5.6.0 \
-boot n  -usbdevice tablet -no-kvm-pit-reinjection \
--append 'ks=cdrom nicdelay=60 console=ttyS0,115200 console=tty0'
2.
3.
  
Actual results:
guest kernel panic

Expected results:
installation goes smoothly

Additional info:

host info:
cpu 
processor	: 1
vendor_id	: AuthenticAMD
cpu family	: 15
model		: 107
model name	: AMD Athlon(tm) Dual Core Processor 5400B
stepping	: 2
cpu MHz		: 1000.000
...
wp		: yes
flags		: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow pni cx16 lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy misalignsse

RAM 4G

Comment 1 Xiaoqing Wei 2011-05-20 10:38:47 UTC
hit this issue 3 times out 20 installation

Comment 2 Xiaoqing Wei 2011-05-20 10:39:17 UTC
Created attachment 500032 [details]
vm serial output

Comment 3 Xiaoqing Wei 2011-05-20 10:40:49 UTC
Created attachment 500033 [details]
kvm_stat info when running guest

Comment 4 Gleb Natapov 2011-05-30 11:27:25 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 707820 ***