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Bug 919364

Summary: soft lockups in guest kernel when booting without -enable-kvm
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Chao Yang <chayang>
Component: qemu-kvmAssignee: Hai Huang <hhuang>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: medium    
Version: 7.0CC: acathrow, alex.williamson, chayang, hhuang, juzhang, michen, shuang, virt-maint
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Last Closed: 2013-08-08 17:46:49 UTC Type: Bug
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output of serial port from guest none

Description Chao Yang 2013-03-08 09:21:05 UTC
Created attachment 706954 [details]
output of serial port from guest

Description of problem:
Booting a rhel 7.0 VM without -enable-kvm, guest kernel panic happened.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
# qemu-system-x86_64 -version
QEMU emulator version 1.4.0, Copyright (c) 2003-2008 Fabrice Bellard
# uname -r
3.8.0-0.40.el7.x86_64

How reproducible:
100%

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Additional info:
CLI:
# qemu-system-x86_64 -M q35 -monitor stdio -drive file=rhel7.0-1.qcow2,if=none,id=drive-ide0-0-0,format=qcow2,cache=none -device virtio-blk-pci,drive=drive-ide0-0-0,bootindex=1 -vnc :1 -m 2048 -smp 2 -netdev tap,id=hostnet0,vhost=on -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=hostnet0,id=net0,mac=78:2b:cb:6e:41:22 -balloon none -boot menu=on -serial unix:/tmp/test,server,nowait

Comment 2 Hai Huang 2013-03-08 12:45:29 UTC
This bug appears to be a direct consequence of
Bug 906185 - kvm is not enabled by default on rhel7 qemu-kvm

Comment 3 Alex Williamson 2013-03-08 14:52:43 UTC
soft lockups < panic

Comment 4 Hai Huang 2013-08-08 17:46:49 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 906185 ***