Windows guest freezes with black screen
Hi,
quite often my Windows guest freezes. The window is just black and it uses 100% CPU. I don't think it's a guest problem, because I have kernel debugging enabled and a debugger running in another VM is connected through a serial line. It doesn't show any problems and when the guest freezes the debugger connection is dead as well.
Host
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OS: Debian Unstable
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2
Kernel: Linux 2.6.33
Arch: amd64
KVM version: 0.12.3
Command line:
kvm \
-monitor unix:/tmp/.kvm-1000/kvm.LuHAkMFOVV/monitor,server,nowait \
-pidfile /tmp/.kvm-1000/kvm.LuHAkMFOVV/pid \
-daemonize \
-serial unix:/tmp/.kvm-1000/kvm.LuHAkMFOVV/console,server,nowait \
-drive file=hdd.vdi,if=virtio,boot=on \
-boot c \
-m 1024M \
-sdl \
-net nic,model=virtio,macaddr=52:54:00:12:34:57 \
-net user \
-usbdevice tablet \
-vga vmware \
-serial unix:/tmp/kvm-ttyS
Guest:
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OS: Windows XP SP3
Arch: 32bit
Video: SVGA-II (vmware video driver)
Cheers,
harry
Quoted 31 lines · Harald Braumann
Hi,
quite often my Windows guest freezes. The window is just black and it uses 100% CPU. I don't think it's a guest problem, because I have kernel debugging enabled and a debugger running in another VM is connected through a serial line. It doesn't show any problems and when the guest freezes the debugger connection is dead as well.
Host
----
OS: Debian Unstable
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2
Kernel: Linux 2.6.33
Arch: amd64
KVM version: 0.12.3
Command line:
kvm \
-monitor unix:/tmp/.kvm-1000/kvm.LuHAkMFOVV/monitor,server,nowait \
-pidfile/tmp/.kvm-1000/kvm.LuHAkMFOVV/pid\
-daemonize \
-serial unix:/tmp/.kvm-1000/kvm.LuHAkMFOVV/console,server,nowait \
-drive file=hdd.vdi,if=virtio,boot=on \
-boot c \
-m 1024M \
-sdl \
-net nic,model=virtio,macaddr=52:54:00:12:34:57 \
-net user \
-usbdevice tablet \
-vga vmware \
-serial unix:/tmp/kvm-ttyS
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Guest:
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OS: Windows XP SP3
Arch: 32bit
Video: SVGA-II (vmware video driver)
Have you tried to reproduce without vmware vga? That support was developed against the linux drivers (and possibly some loose specifications) and has had known issues in the past. It would at least be a data point of where to look.
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Cheers,
harry
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Quoted 7 lines · Brian Jackson
Quoted 2 lines · Harald Braumann
quite often my Windows guest freezes. The window is just black and it uses 100% CPU.
Have you tried to reproduce without vmware vga? That support was developed against the linux drivers (and possibly some loose specifications) and has had known issues in the past. It would at least be a data point of where to look.
OK, I now run with `-vga std'. I'll let you know, how that works out.
Cherrs,
harry
Quoted 8 lines · Brian Jackson
Quoted 3 lines · Harald Braumann
quite often my Windows guest freezes. The window is just black and it uses 100% CPU.
Have you tried to reproduce without vmware vga? That support was developed against the linux drivers (and possibly some loose specifications) and has had known issues in the past. It would at least be a data point of where to look.
So far no freezes with `-vga std'. So there is a very high probability that vmware is the culprit. Anyway, std works much better. Vmware had a lot of graphic glitches, like sometimes the screen wouldnt be updated and I had to move windows so they would be redrawn.
Cheers,
harry