Ticket #120 (closed defect: invalid)

Opened 5 years ago

Last modified 5 years ago

Test intallation in qemu without kqemu.

Reported by: dpc Assigned to: dpc
Priority: normal Milestone: 3.0
Component: General Version: 2.0
Severity: normal Keywords:
Cc:

Description

Reported here: http://forum.lintrack.org/viewtopic.php?id=7

In short: "without kqemu - kernel modules - process installation died during program "setup" installing software"

Change History

11/08/06 21:02:17 changed by dpc

  • owner changed from pjf to dpc.
  • status changed from new to assigned.

After migration to kubuntu I've had a lot of problems with starting Lintrack in qemu, and here are conclusions that may help with this issue.

Lintrack seems to hang after Coldplugging hardware message if there are other devices than hda and hdc (cd). I don't know if this a problem, but 

-hdb fat:rw:$HOME/qemu/hdb/

was triggering such hang both with and without kqemu.

12/28/06 19:03:44 changed by xmxwx

  • status changed from assigned to closed.
  • resolution set to invalid.

Installation of Lintrack on qemu 0.8.2 (debian-testing package: qemu-0.8.2-4) worked successfully for me, without any problems. No hangs, unexpected failure messages, etc.

The problem with system hang on Coldplugging hardware message with virtual disks created by qemu on-the-fly (option -hd. fat:rw:.*) is (as far as my tests are concerned) not an issue of the guest system, but the qemu itself. I have noticed that the whole qemu process hangs upon entering the Coldplugging hardware stage of bootup process. The SDL window of qemu is not refreshed anymore. If I let qemu prior to its hang grab the keyboard and mouse, it didn't let me release them, so the process was undoubtedly hung.

Since the Coldplugging hardware stage doesn't seem to make any problems on the real hardware or after disabling qemu's virtual disks, I think it is safe to consider the problem qemu-specific and due to lack of confirmation of kiniek's problem (the one mentioned in the summary) the ticket is being closed.