Bug 823460

Summary: winxp guest boot fail when -smp >64
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: FuXiangChun <xfu>
Component: qemu-kvmAssignee: Vadim Rozenfeld <vrozenfe>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
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Version: 6.3CC: acathrow, bsarathy, chayang, dyasny, flang, juzhang, michen, mkenneth, qzhang, rhod, shu, sluo, virt-maint, wdai
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Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Windows   
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Description FuXiangChun 2012-05-21 10:18:04 UTC
Description of problem:
If boot winxp-sp3(32bit) guest with -smp >64 then guest will continuously reboot.
If use -smp <=64,Guest will boot successfully 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
# uname -r
2.6.32-272.el6.x86_64
#rpm -qa|grep qemu
qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.294.el6.x86_64

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1./usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -M rhel6.3.0 -cpu Penryn,-kvmclock  -monitor stdio -enable-kvm -m 3G -smp 65,sockets=13,cores=5,threads=1 -name rhel6 -uuid 745fe449-aac8-29f1-0c2d-5042a707263b -boot c -drive file=/home/windows-image/winXP-32-virtio.qcow2,if=none,id=drive-ide0-0-0,format=qcow2,cache=none,aio=threads -device virtio-blk-pci,drive=drive-ide0-0-0,id=ide0-0-0,bootindex=1,scsi=off -netdev tap,id=hostnet1 -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=hostnet1,id=net1,mac=86:12:50:a4:35:75 -spice disable-ticketing,port=5913 -device sga -chardev socket,id=serial0,path=/var/test4,server,nowait -device isa-serial,chardev=serial0
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Actual results:
boot fail

Expected results:
guest work well

Additional info:
hit the same issue on amd and intel host. host cores number:96

Comment 1 FuXiangChun 2012-05-22 09:44:44 UTC
re-test this issue, it can be triggered when -smp >32 too.

Comment 2 Ronen Hod 2012-05-23 10:24:54 UTC
In http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_XP#Processor_limits
It says that XP can support up to 32 logical processors.

Ronen.