We are seeing F9 and Rawhide, when launched as a guest in kvm (whether throuhg virt-manager or command line in qemu-kvm) will get through grub, then loose it's vnc connection, and eventually seg fault. This tasks resolves this issue on f9. Perhaps it should be backported: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=600393 I get the following debug output on f8. [root@localhost kickstarts]# gdb /usr/bin/qemu-kvm GNU gdb Red Hat Linux (6.6-45.fc8rh) Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "i386-redhat-linux-gnu"... Using host libthread_db library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1". (gdb) setargs -vnc :1 thincrust9-sda.raw Undefined command: "setargs". Try "help". (gdb) set args -vnc :1 thincrust9-sda.raw (gdb) run Starting program: /usr/bin/qemu-kvm -vnc :1 thincrust9-sda.raw [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] [New Thread -1208984976 (LWP 24008)] [New Thread -1208923248 (LWP 24346)] Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. [Switching to Thread -1208984976 (LWP 24008)] 0x0058d37d in memmove () from /lib/libc.so.6 (gdb) bt #0 0x0058d37d in memmove () from /lib/libc.so.6 #1 0x080b38ae in vnc_copy (ds=0x8181060, src_x=0, src_y=400, dst_x=0, dst_y=384, w=56, h=16) at vnc.c:465 #2 0x080947ec in cirrus_bitblt_start (s=0xbea01e0) at /usr/src/debug/kvm-60/qemu/hw/cirrus_vga.c:760 #3 0x08095008 in cirrus_hook_write_gr (s=0xbea01e0, reg_index=2935746376, reg_value=2) at /usr/src/debug/kvm-60/qemu/hw/cirrus_vga.c:1064 #4 0x08095bb9 in vga_ioport_write (opaque=0xbea01e0, addr=975, val=2) at /usr/src/debug/kvm-60/qemu/hw/cirrus_vga.c:2958 #5 0x080d3277 in kvm_outw (opaque=0x0, addr=48128, data=<value optimized out>) at /usr/src/debug/kvm-60/qemu/qemu-kvm.c:478 #6 0x0814b643 in kvm_run (kvm=0xbde0028, vcpu=0) at libkvm.c:719 #7 0x080d2bf2 in kvm_cpu_exec (env=0xbe46da8) at /usr/src/debug/kvm-60/qemu/qemu-kvm.c:143 #8 0x080d36d2 in kvm_main_loop_cpu (env=0xbe46da8) at /usr/src/debug/kvm-60/qemu/qemu-kvm.c:343 #9 0x08057cf8 in main (argc=4, argv=0xbfd605f4) at /usr/src/debug/kvm-60/qemu/vl.c:7817 #10 0x00532390 in __libc_start_main (main=0x8054e2c <main>, argc=4, ubp_av=0xbfd605f4, init=0x814d340 <__libc_csu_init>, fini=0x814d330 <__libc_csu_fini>, rtld_fini=0x50b940 <_dl_fini>, stack_end=0xbfd605ec) at libc-start.c:220 #11 0x0804ce21 in _start () (gdb)
Patch from Marcelo Tossati fixes this: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2008-05/msg00291.html Koji scratch build for F-9 with this patch added: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=600393
kvm-60-4.fc8 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 8
kvm-60-4.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update kvm'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F8/FEDORA-2008-4098
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