[Spice-devel] WinXP with Standard PC CPU model continuously restarts..

[Alon Levy]

On Fri, Apr 06, 2012 at 08:25:24AM -0700, Naga Mohan Pothula wrote:
>    Eagerly waiting for your suggestions. My main intention is WinXP guest
>    should not hang on "Its now safe to turn off your computer" while doing
>    shutdown. 
>    Can you please respond on this?
>    Thanks\Naga.

Does this happen if you change any of:
 1. cpus to 1 (i.e. no -smp flag, or -smp 1)
 2. remove virtio-serial
 3. remove qxl

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>    From: Naga Mohan Pothula <nagamohan.pothula at yahoo.com>
>    To: "spice-devel at lists.freedesktop.org"
>    <spice-devel at lists.freedesktop.org>
>    Sent: Thursday, April 5, 2012 4:59 PM
>    Subject: [Spice-devel] WinXP with Standard PC CPU model continuously
>    restarts..
>    Hi,
>    WinXP having Standard PC CPU model continuously restarts while booting and
>    have seen BSOD. Please refer attached screenshots.
>    Initially, WnXP guest has MPS Uniprocessor PC and I'm having problem while
>    doing shutdown. It hangs displaying "Its now safe to turn your computer"
>    I have read below article that If we change CPU model to Standard PC and
>    install NT APM legacy driver, guest will be shutdown automatically.
>    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/810903 
>    By doing this it worked fine with different WinXP guest earlier. If i do
>    the same to my WinXP guest I'm seeing above specified issue.
>    Instead of changing to Standard PC, I thought of changing to ACPI
>    complaint. 
>    But after reading below article, I understood we can't change CPU
>    models(MPS Uniprocessor PC/ MPS Multiprocessor PC / Standard PC) to ACPI
>    simply by Update Driver.
>    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309283
>    I have noticed this behaviour even with WinXP guest launched from
>    Virt-manager on Centos 6.2.
>    I can't reinstall WinXP guest OS to specify ACPI. 
>    Is there anyway to change CPU model as ACPI complaint from MPS
>    uniprocessor PC?
>    Thank you for your help.
>    Regards,
>    Naga.
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