xp guest, blue screen c0000221 on boot

Hangs on boot, xp guest:

STOP: c0000221 Unknown Hard Error
\SystemRoot\System32\ntdll.dll

Will boot into safe mode, but _not_ into safe mode with networking.

Boots into non-MS VMs fine.

* what cpu model (examples: Intel Core Duo, Intel Core 2 Duo, AMD
Opteron 2210). See /proc/cpuinfo if you're not sure.

processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 14
model name : Genuine Intel(R) CPU L2400 @ 1.66GHz
stepping : 8
cpu MHz : 1000.000
cache size : 2048 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 2
core id : 0
cpu cores : 2
apicid : 0
initial apicid : 0
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 10
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx constant_tsc arch_perfmon bts pni monitor vmx est tm2 xtpr pdcm
bogomips : 3324.92
clflush size : 64
power management:

processor : 1
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 14
model name : Genuine Intel(R) CPU L2400 @ 1.66GHz
stepping : 8
cpu MHz : 1000.000
cache size : 2048 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 2
core id : 1
cpu cores : 2
apicid : 1
initial apicid : 1
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 10
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx constant_tsc arch_perfmon bts pni monitor vmx est tm2 xtpr pdcm
bogomips : 3324.97
clflush size : 64
power management:

* what kvm version you are using. If you're using git directly,
provide the output of 'git describe'.

Same behavior with ubuntu package 0.11.0-0ubuntu6 (karmic) and source qemu-kvm-0.11.0

* the host kernel version

Linux monkamu 2.6.31-14-generic #48-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 16 14:04:26 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux

* what host kernel arch you are using (i386 or x86_64)

i386

* what guest you are using, including OS type (Linux, Windows,
Solaris, etc.), bitness (32 or 64), kernel version

XP Pro 32 SP 3

* the qemu command line you are using to start the guest

kvm -cpu coreduo,-nx -hda /z/xp.img -boot c -usb -usbdevice tablet -m 512

* whether the problem goes away if using the -no-kvm-irqchip or
-no-kvm-pit switch.

No

* whether the problem also appears with the -no-kvm switch.

No

According to http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314474, this file is corrupted. If you have another VM with the same service pack, you might try copying the file over in safe mode, or you can try extracting it from the service pack and copying it.

error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

Thanks. In pursuing this suggestion I discovered that I also can't make new XP VMs. Setup fails with "the disk may be damaged".

The image was created with

qemu-img create xp_new.img 13G

And the setup command is

kvm -cdrom xp/xp_pro.iso -hda xp_new.img -boot d -m 512 -no-acpi -usb -usbdevice tablet

What happens if you use a new qcow2 disk? Does it fail in the same way?

error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

Any specific reason you are using -no-acpi ?
Y.

I had trouble getting winxp installed within kvm too. Stopped with all sorts of funny errors depending on how I started it (with/without acpi, ...). Don't remember the exact errors, but one disk-related was among them.

Happended only on my AMD box though, on the Intel machine it worked fine. Both ran a quite simliar setup (Fedora 11). Which made me suspect hardware problems. Tried to upgrade the BIOS -> works fine now.

HTH,
Gerd

Thanks for the suggestion. I've successfully installed on a new qcow2 image.

Strangely all of my xp raw images no longer work. That makes me think that this is more than just a corrupt image.

I've been using kvm for several years with raw images, so I don't think the BIOS could be a factor either.

If there's a way to get my raw images to work, that would be nice. I'm trying to convert one of the raw images to qcow2 -- perhaps that will work.

OK, if I convert the raw image to qcow2, it boots fine.

Why should a raw image give a blue screen?

Sounds like a serious bug. What is the host filesystem? Did you upgrade the host kernel or qemu?

Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.

Host is ext3

Linux monkamu 2.6.31-14-generic #48-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 16 14:04:26 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux

QEMU PC emulator version 0.11.0 (qemu-kvm-0.11.0), Copyright (c) 2003-2008 Fabrice Bellard

If you convert a qcow image back to raw on ext3, does it fail?

Similarly, converting it into an lvm volume, works or not?

error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

qemu-img convert -O raw xp.qcow2 xp.img

using the same command on the raw image gives a blue screen on startup (same error as before)

So converting from raw to qcow2 fixes the error, and converting back to raw reintroduces the error

I'm not set up to use LVM volumes