[fedora-virt] Guest kernel hanging at '...trying to set up timer as Virtual Wire IRQ...'

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 10:19:32PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> 
> I've got the guest kernel hanging randomly at:
> 
>   ACPI: Core revision 20090320
>   ftrace: converting mcount calls to 0f 1f 44 00 00
>   ftrace: allocating 18780 entries in 37 pages
>   ..TIMER: vector=0x30 apic1=0 pin1=0 apic2=-1 pin2=-1
>   ..MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC
>   ...trying to set up timer (IRQ0) through the 8259A ...
>   ..... (found apic 0 pin 0) ...
>   ....... failed.
>   ...trying to set up timer as Virtual Wire IRQ...
> 
> This is the very latest on Rawhide.  Full packages, versions, etc in
> the build log here:

Last time I saw this error was due a KVM build problem causing it to 
use the wrong BIOS. ie it was using the plain QEMU bios, instead of the
KVM modified bios.

Daniel
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