Bug 616272 - KVM crashes inside SeaBIOS when attempting to boot MS-DOS
Summary: KVM crashes inside SeaBIOS when attempting to boot MS-DOS
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: seabios
Version: 13
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Justin M. Forbes
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-07-20 01:06 UTC by H. Peter Anvin
Modified: 2011-06-29 13:15 UTC (History)
10 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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: 622350 (view as bug list)
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Last Closed: 2011-06-29 13:15:01 UTC
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Description H. Peter Anvin 2010-07-20 01:06:33 UTC
Description of problem:

KVM crashes when booting an MS-DOS 6.22 guest on an Intel host.  This happens inside SeaBIOS; apparently SeaBIOS puts the hardware in a state KVM can't handle.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

qemu-system-x86-0.12.3-8.fc13.x86_64

How reproducible:

Every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create an MS-DOS 6.22 boot disk
2. Boot it.
  
Actual results:
kvm: unhandled exit 80000021
kvm_run returned -22

"info registers" in the Qemu console shows that the error happens inside SeaBIOS, immediately after a return to real mode.

Expected results:
MS-DOS booting.

Additional info:
Happens with both hard disk and floppy disk images.  No config.sys or autoexec.bat needed in the guest.

CPU information (x4 cores x2 threads):
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 26
model name      : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU         940  @ 2.93GHz
stepping        : 4
cpu MHz         : 1600.000
cache size      : 8192 KB
physical id     : 0
siblings        : 8
core id         : 0
cpu cores       : 4
apicid          : 0
initial apicid  : 0
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 11
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good xtopology nonstop_tsc aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt lahf_lm ida tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid       
bogomips        : 5853.09                                                                   
clflush size    : 64                                                                        
cache_alignment : 64                                                                        
address sizes   : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual                                         
power management:

Comment 1 H. Peter Anvin 2010-07-26 23:08:27 UTC
Note: "Plain" Qemu handles the same thing fine.

Comment 2 H. Peter Anvin 2010-07-31 01:21:18 UTC
(qemu) info registers
EAX=00000010 EBX=00000008 ECX=e0100000 EDX=00000508
ESI=00000020 EDI=e0100020 EBP=00000008 ESP=000004d4
EIP=0000f4a7 EFL=00000002 [-------] CPL=3 II=0 A20=1 SMM=0 HLT=0
ES =0000 00000000 0000ffff 0000f300
CS =f000 000f0000 0000ffff 0000f300
SS =8e01 0008e010 0000ffff 0000f300
DS =8ec9 0008ec96 0000ffff 0000f300
FS =0000 00000000 0000ffff 0000f300                   
GS =0000 00000000 0000ffff 0000f300
LDT=0000 00000000 0000ffff 00008200
TR =0000 feffd000 00002088 00008b00
GDT=     0008ec66 0000002f
IDT=     000f8560 00000000                            
CR0=00000010 CR2=00000000 CR3=00000000 CR4=00000000
DR0=00000000 DR1=00000000 DR2=00000000 DR3=00000000       
DR6=ffff0ff0 DR7=00000400                                 
FCW=037f FSW=0000 [ST=0] FTW=00 MXCSR=00000000
FPR0=0000000000000000 0000 FPR1=0000000000000000 0000                        
FPR2=0000000000000000 0000 FPR3=0000000000000000 0000                        
FPR4=0000000000000000 0000 FPR5=0000000000000000 0000             
FPR6=0000000000000000 0000 FPR7=0000000000000000 0000
XMM00=00000000000000000000000000000000 XMM01=00000000000000000000000000000000
XMM02=00000000000000000000000000000000 XMM03=00000000000000000000000000000000
XMM04=00000000000000000000000000000000 XMM05=00000000000000000000000000000000
XMM06=00000000000000000000000000000000 XMM07=00000000000000000000000000000000

Comment 3 Justin M. Forbes 2010-08-11 21:16:37 UTC
Which version of seabios is this using?

Comment 4 H. Peter Anvin 2010-08-13 17:32:37 UTC
seabios-bin-0.5.1-3.fc13.noarch

Comment 5 H. Peter Anvin 2010-08-13 17:43:46 UTC
Looking through the register dump, one thing that stands out to me is that ds_base is not 16-byte aligned - that is probably the part that makes KVM reject the state.

Comment 6 Gleb Natapov 2010-08-15 11:46:05 UTC
can you test if latest seabios from  git://git.linuxtogo.org/home/kevin/seabios.git works?

Comment 7 H. Peter Anvin 2010-08-24 00:59:46 UTC
Tested it, it works.

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Comment 9 Bug Zapper 2011-06-29 13:15:01 UTC
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