Description of problem: I have a guest installation of Windows XP Pro running insde qemu-kvm. The guest is however unusable because after it's been up for a about a minute it starts to periodically hang for 10-20 seconds at a time, during which time the mouse doesn't move, the display doesn't update, no response to keyboard. i am connecting to the guest instance using virt-manager and friends, and when the guest is frozen, I can happily Ctrl-Alt out of the windo i.e. the host is not hanging. This is on an intel x86_64. This has occured with all F8 kernels as released so far. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kvm-36-7.fc8 How reproducible: Everytime Steps to Reproduce: 1.Boot guest 2.Watch it hang.
On my Core 2 Duo (Merom) laptop, the installation of XP did not even finish. I conservatively used 1 CPU (not 2, just in case KVM's SMP support is the problem), and it froze when registering components. Using kvm-60 from Rawhide (no other changes; using latest update kernel from F8) fixes the issue. Please consider updating the F8 version?
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Not seeing this anymore in F-9. Closing.