Bug 947441

Summary: HPET device must be disabled
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini>
Component: qemu-kvmAssignee: Miroslav Rezanina <mrezanin>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
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Version: 7.0CC: acathrow, fyang, hhuang, juzhang, michen, qiguo, qzhang, virt-maint
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Fixed In Version: qemu-kvm-1.5.3-7.el7 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2014-06-13 10:43:42 UTC Type: Bug
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Bug Blocks: 720747, 895240, 980873, 987757    

Description Paolo Bonzini 2013-04-02 12:36:43 UTC
We do not support the HPET.  CONFIG_HPET must be removed from default-configs/*-softmmu.mak.

See bug 495851 [Hpet support (HAL timer tests failed SVVP testing)].

Comment 2 Miroslav Rezanina 2013-04-23 09:45:20 UTC
Fixed in qemu-kvm-1.4.0-3.el7.x86_64.rpm

Comment 3 Miroslav Rezanina 2013-09-26 09:32:55 UTC
Fix included in qemu-kvm-1.5.3-7.el7

Comment 5 Qian Guo 2013-11-04 08:44:40 UTC
Reproduced this bug with 
qemu-kvm-1.4.0-1.el7.x86_64

Steps
1. Start a rhel7 guest like this:
# /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -cpu Penryn -enable-kvm -m 4096 -smp 4,sockets=1,cores=4,threads=1 -name rhel7base -drive file=/home/rhel7base.qcow2,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk0,format=qcow2,werror=stop,rerror=stop,aio=native -device virtio-blk-pci,drive=drive-virtio-disk0,id=virtio-disk0 -boot menu=on -monitor stdio -spice disable-ticketing,port=5930,seamless-migration=on -vga qxl -global qxl-vga.vram_size=67108864 -device virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon1 -qmp tcp:0:4446,server,nowait

2. In guest check the available_clocksource:
# cat /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/available_clocksource
kvm-clock tsc hpet acpi_pm 

There's hpet that available in guest, so the hpet is enabled by default, the bug is reproduced

Verify this bug with qemu-kvm-1.5.3-11.el7.x86_64

Steps:
1. Start the same guest as above :
# /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -cpu Penryn -enable-kvm -m 4096 -smp 4,sockets=1,cores=4,threads=1 -name rhel7base -drive file=/home/rhel7base.qcow2,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk0,format=qcow2,werror=stop,rerror=stop,aio=native -device virtio-blk-pci,drive=drive-virtio-disk0,id=virtio-disk0 -boot menu=on -monitor stdio -spice disable-ticketing,port=5930,seamless-migration=on -vga qxl -global qxl-vga.vram_size=67108864 -device virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon1 -qmp tcp:0:4446,server,nowait

2. In guest check the available_clocksource:
# cat /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/available_clocksource
kvm-clock tsc acpi_pm

There's no hpet.

So according to above, this bug is fixed by qemu-kvm-1.5.3-11.el7.x86_64

Comment 7 Ludek Smid 2014-06-13 10:43:42 UTC
This request was resolved in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0.

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