[SeaBIOS] [Qemu-devel] solaris x86 in qemu? [bisected]
Kevin O'Connor
kevin at koconnor.net
Fri Jun 14 01:47:52 CEST 2013
On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 12:32:22AM +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> 13.06.2013 11:51, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> > Hello.
> >
> > In order to verify some build issues on solaris, I tried to install
> > sol10 x86 in a kvm vm. But unfortunately it does not work: after the
> > grub prompt and choosing "Solaris 10 x86" boot entry, the kernel
> > gets loaded (there's a row of dots displayed during that), next,
> > the following message gets displayed:
> >
> > SunOS Release 5.10 Version Generic_147148-26 64-bit
> > Copyright (c) 1983, 2013 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
> >
> > and the guest stays there for a long time, spinning up 100% of its CPU,
> > and nothing more happens.
> >
> > The same happens when run with or without kvm (ie, tcg and kvm behaves
> > the same way).
> >
> > When run in kvm, kvm_stats shows just a few exits (about 600/sec) and
> > nothing more than that.
> >
> > I think that supporting solaris as _guest_ OS is an important goal
> > for qemu/kvm (as opposed to _host_).
>
> I tried to bisect this. It turns out that solaris x86 does not boot in
> qemu/kvm for quite long time already, namely, starting from this commit:
>
>
> commit 6b034aa138716a515c88f7894940d5d0aff2f3ed
> Author: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel at redhat.com>
> Date: Tue Apr 17 10:51:41 2012 +0200
>
> seabios: update to 1.7.0
>
> Update roms/seabios and pc-bios/bios.bin to the 1.7.0 release.
> Most noticable new feature is virtio-scsi support.
>
> Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel at redhat.com>
>
>
> So I went on and tried to bisect seabios (previous version in qemu
> was 1.6.3.2, and it worked).
>
> So seabios bisection with qemu-1.1 points to this commit:
>
> commit 9d3d7cb4b163d3fbcba64a01c4fa42eb6bc53128
> Author: Kevin O'Connor <kevin at koconnor.net>
> Date: Wed Sep 21 21:19:51 2011 -0400
>
> Move code from PCI hotplug DSDT macros to methods.
>
> Simplify the hotplug code by moving the bulk of the logic out of the
> macros and into static method definitions. This also reduces the ACPI
> DSDT code size.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kevin O'Connor <kevin at koconnor.net>
>
Can you try with the latest seabios release (v1.7.2.2)? There have
been other changes to the dsdt that may have corrected your issue.
-Kevin
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