Bug 716334

Summary: Windows guest can not boot up while savevm/loadvm
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Joy Pu <ypu>
Component: kvmAssignee: Virtualization Maintenance <virt-maint>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
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Priority: medium    
Version: 5.7CC: michen, mkenneth, virt-maint
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Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
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Last Closed: 2011-06-24 11:20:59 UTC Type: ---
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Screen of reboot point none

Description Joy Pu 2011-06-24 02:34:03 UTC 
Description:
Boot up a Windows guest, and while booting do the savevm/loadvm operate. The guest will keep reboot at the very beginning step "Booting from Hard Disk...", can not boot up. This is found in Win7 and WinXP guest.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel: 
2.6.18-268.el5
kvm&qemu: 
etherboot-roms-kvm-5.4.4-13.el5
kvm-qemu-img-83-237.el5
etherboot-zroms-kvm-5.4.4-13.el5
kmod-kvm-83-237.el5
kvm-tools-83-237.el5
kvm-83-237.el5
kmod-kvm-debug-83-237.el5
gpxe-roms-qemu-0.9.7-8.el5


How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot up a Windows guest
2. Do savevm/loadvm while booting until guest is boot up.
(qemu)stop
(qemu)savevm 1
(qemu)system_reset
(qemu)loadvm 1
(qemu)cont

Actual results:
Guest will keep reboot at "Booting from Hard Disk..." step
Expected results:
Guest should boot up normally

Additional info:
Comment 1 Joy Pu 2011-06-24 02:47:10 UTC 
Created attachment 509662 [details]
Screen of reboot point
Comment 2 Joy Pu 2011-06-24 11:20:59 UTC 
Just confirm with developer, this operate is not supported in raw format. So close it.