Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 447733
qemu virtual machine freezes, eating all CPU
Last modified: 2009-07-14 11:17:40 EDT
Description of problem: When trying to use virtual machine in qemu, sooner or later it freezes. The opened console does not react to anything, and if closed, new connection cannot be established. The qemu process eats all the available time of one of the CPU cores. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): qemu-0.9.1-5.fc9.x86_64 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: at first, I did this: 0. (some installation) 1. service libvirtd start 2. virt-install -n F7 -r 512 --vcpus 2 -f /root/virtual/F7 -s 32 -v -c boot.iso -w bridge:virbr0 3. within the virtual machine, I started installation from http, then basically clicking next, next, it freezed while formatting the disk Actual results: virtual machine stopped responding Expected results: virtual machine runs Additional info: - the same happens when I try to install Fedora 8 - I also tried to reuse the virtual machine created by virt-install, setting boot from CD image using virt-manager and then starting it from virt-manager - sometimes, it freezes (much) earlier than during formatting the disk - what I find strange is that virt-manager reports that the disk image would be "hdc" while the installers (both F7 and F8) detect it as sda - if I try to stop the virtual machine using virt-manager, the qemu process still runs (and eats cpu); it even survives the restart of libvirtd
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