<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span>Hi Alon,</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>This issue happens whether we remove virtio-serial/QXL or not.</span></div><div><span>Have seen the issue in both cases(not using -smp option and Qemu with virt-manager uses -smp 1)</span></div><div><span>I think below specified 3 options don't matter for this issue.</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks\Naga.</div><div><br></div> <div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "> <div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Alon Levy <alevy@redhat.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Naga Mohan Pothula
<nagamohan.pothula@yahoo.com> <br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> "spice-devel@lists.freedesktop.org" <spice-devel@lists.freedesktop.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Saturday, April 7, 2012 5:24 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Spice-devel] WinXP with Standard PC CPU model continuously restarts..<br> </font> </div> <br>
On Fri, Apr 06, 2012 at 08:25:24AM -0700, Naga Mohan Pothula wrote:<br>> Eagerly waiting for your suggestions. My main intention is WinXP guest<br>> should not hang on "Its now safe to turn off your computer" while doing<br>> shutdown. <br>> Can you please respond on this?<br>> Thanks\Naga.<br><br>Does this happen if you change any of:<br> 1. cpus to 1 (i.e. no -smp flag, or -smp 1)<br> 2. remove virtio-serial<br> 3. remove qxl<br><br>> <br>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>> <br>> From: Naga Mohan Pothula <<a ymailto="mailto:nagamohan.pothula@yahoo.com" href="mailto:nagamohan.pothula@yahoo.com">nagamohan.pothula@yahoo.com</a>><br>> To: "<a ymailto="mailto:spice-devel@lists.freedesktop.org"
href="mailto:spice-devel@lists.freedesktop.org">spice-devel@lists.freedesktop.org</a>"<br>> <<a ymailto="mailto:spice-devel@lists.freedesktop.org" href="mailto:spice-devel@lists.freedesktop.org">spice-devel@lists.freedesktop.org</a>><br>> Sent: Thursday, April 5, 2012 4:59 PM<br>> Subject: [Spice-devel] WinXP with Standard PC CPU model continuously<br>> restarts..<br>> Hi,<br>> WinXP having Standard PC CPU model continuously restarts while booting and<br>> have seen BSOD. Please refer attached screenshots.<br>> Initially, WnXP guest has MPS Uniprocessor PC and I'm having problem while<br>> doing shutdown. It hangs displaying "Its now safe to turn your computer"<br>> I have read below article that If we change CPU model to Standard PC and<br>> install NT APM legacy driver,
guest will be shutdown automatically.<br>> <a href="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/810903 " target="_blank">http://support.microsoft.com/kb/810903 </a><br>> By doing this it worked fine with different WinXP guest earlier. If i do<br>> the same to my WinXP guest I'm seeing above specified issue.<br>> Instead of changing to Standard PC, I thought of changing to ACPI<br>> complaint. <br>> But after reading below article, I understood we can't change CPU<br>> models(MPS Uniprocessor PC/ MPS Multiprocessor PC / Standard PC) to ACPI<br>> simply by Update Driver.<br>> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309283<br>> I have noticed this behaviour even with WinXP guest launched from<br>> Virt-manager on Centos 6.2.<br>> I can't reinstall WinXP guest OS to specify
ACPI. <br>> Is there anyway to change CPU model as ACPI complaint from MPS<br>> uniprocessor PC?<br>> Thank you for your help.<br>> Regards,<br>> Naga.<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Spice-devel mailing list<br>> [1]<a ymailto="mailto:Spice-devel@lists.freedesktop.org" href="mailto:Spice-devel@lists.freedesktop.org">Spice-devel@lists.freedesktop.org</a><br>> [2]http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/spice-devel<br>> <br>> References<br>> <br>> Visible links<br>> 1. mailto:<a ymailto="mailto:Spice-devel@lists.freedesktop.org" href="mailto:Spice-devel@lists.freedesktop.org">Spice-devel@lists.freedesktop.org</a><br>> 2. <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/spice-devel"
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