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Guest lockup in qemu-kvm-0.11.0 when closing firefox
March 10, 2010 - 3:44pm
Anyone know why in the world closing firefox in an xubuntu-9.10-x86_64 guest would kill the whole guest? The cpu usage shoots to the moon and the guest becomes unresponsive. I've also tried the ubuntu-9.10 distro with the same results. This is how I am starting the guest:
/usr/local/qemu-kvm-0.11.0/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -M pc -m 2048 -net vde -drive file=/dev/sdp,if=scsi,boot=on -net nic,macaddr=BA:DD:C0:FF:EE:F6 -net nic -boot c -cdrom iso/xubuntu-9.10-desktop-amd64.iso -k en-us -sdl -usbdevice tablet -smp 1
So thought I would try the latest qemu-kvm (0.12.3) and what seems to happen sometimes is that the guest appears to be completely dead for a couple minutes but then suddenly comes back to life. Other times, it's seems just locked up.
The host is on a dual processor 12 core opteron system. Should I be using some special boot parameters in the guest?
/usr/local/qemu-kvm-0.12.3/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -name test -M pc -m 2048 -boot d -vga std -sdl -net nic,macaddr=BA:DD:C0:FF:EE:F6 -net vde -drive file=/dev/sdp,if=scsi,boot=on -cdrom iso/xubuntu-9.10-desktop-amd64.iso -k en-us -usbdevice tablet -smp 2
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