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Bug
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Resolution: Unresolved
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Major
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None
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rhel-10.1
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None
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Low
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CustomerScenariosInitiative
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rhel-virt-windows
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ssg_virtualization
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3
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False
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False
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Yes
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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None
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None
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Manual
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Unspecified Release Note Type - Unknown
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None
Describe the bug
QE found that with a virtio-vga device as the displaying device, when the guest crashes, the BSOD screen doesn't show up and shuts down immediately. Besides, the dump file on the OS was not generated. Turn to a normal VGA device, everything works well(BSOD shows up and a dump file is generated).
Packages
- CPU=Intel(R) Xeon(R) Silver 4310 CPU @ 2.10GHz
- virtio-win-prewhql-0.1-290.iso
- kernel-6.12.0-122.el10.x86_64
- seabios-bin-1.16.3-7.el10.noarch
- edk2-ovmf-20250523-2.el10.noarch
- swtpm-0.9.0-5.el10.x86_64
- qemu-kvm-core-10.0.0-12.el10.x86_64
To Reproduce
Boot the Windows VM with qemu arguments "-vga virtio" or "-device virtio-vga"
Trigger the crash of the Windows VM
Check the BSOD screen
Expected behavior
The BSOD screen should show properly with the crashdump file generated successfully.
{"QMP": {"version": {"qemu": {"micro": 0, "minor": 0, "major": 10}, "package": "qemu-kvm-10.0.0-12.el10"}, "capabilities": ["oob"]}} {"execute":"qmp_capabilities"} {"return": {}} {"execute": "inject-nmi", "id": "4OLxNMkV"} {"return": {}, "id": "4OLxNMkV"} {"timestamp": {"seconds": 1756890440, "microseconds": 261676}, "event": "GUEST_CRASHLOADED", "data": {"action": "run"}}
Actual results
The BSOD screen doesn't show up and shuts down immediately, and the dump file on the OS was not generated.
{"QMP": {"version": {"qemu": {"micro": 0, "minor": 0, "major": 10}, "package": "qemu-kvm-10.0.0-12.el10"}, "capabilities": ["oob"]}} {"execute":"qmp_capbilities"} {"return": {}} {"execute": "inject-nmi", "id": "4OLxNMkV"} {"return": {}, "id": "4OLxNMkV"} {"timestamp": {"seconds": 1757301450, "microseconds": 24160}, "event": "GUEST_PANICKED", "data": {"action": "poweroff"}} {"timestamp": {"seconds": 1757301450, "microseconds": 24241}, "event": "SHUTDOWN", "data": {"guest": true, "reason": "guest-panic"}}
Attachment: qemu cmdlines
/usr/libexec/qemu-kvm \ -name 'avocado-vt-vm3' \ -machine q35 \ -nodefaults \ -device virtio-vga,id=video \ -device pcie-root-port,port=0x10,chassis=1,id=pci.1,bus=pcie.0,multifunction=on,addr=0x3 \ -device pcie-root-port,port=0x11,chassis=2,id=pci.2,bus=pcie.0,addr=0x3.0x1 \ -device pcie-root-port,port=0x12,chassis=3,id=pci.3,bus=pcie.0,addr=0x3.0x2 \ -device pcie-root-port,port=0x13,chassis=4,id=pci.4,bus=pcie.0,addr=0x3.0x3 \ -device pcie-root-port,port=0x14,chassis=5,id=pci.5,bus=pcie.0,addr=0x3.0x4 \ -device pcie-root-port,port=0x15,chassis=6,id=pci.6,bus=pcie.0,addr=0x3.0x5 \ -device pcie-root-port,port=0x16,chassis=7,id=pci.7,bus=pcie.0,addr=0x3.0x6 \ -device pcie-root-port,port=0x17,chassis=8,id=pci.8,bus=pcie.0,addr=0x3.0x7 \ -device virtio-scsi-pci,id=virtio_scsi_pci1,bus=pci.2 \ -blockdev driver=file,cache.direct=off,cache.no-flush=on,filename=/home/kvm_autotest_root/images/win2022-64-virtio-scsi-ovmf.qcow2,node-name=data_node \ -blockdev driver=qcow2,node-name=data_disk,file=data_node \ -device scsi-hd,drive=data_disk,id=disk1,bus=virtio_scsi_pci1.0,serial=kk \ -device virtio-net-pci,mac=9a:36:83:b6:3d:05,id=idJVpmsF,netdev=id23ZUK6,bus=pci.3 \ -netdev tap,id=id23ZUK6,vhost=on \ -m 14336 \ -smp 2,maxcpus=4 \ -cpu 'Icelake-Server',hv_stimer,hv_synic,hv_vpindex,hv_relaxed,hv_spinlocks=0x1fff,hv_vapic,hv_time,hv_frequencies,hv_runtime,hv_tlbflush,hv_reenlightenment,hv_stimer_direct,hv_ipi,hv-xmm-input,hv_tlbflush_ext,kvm_pv_unhalt=on \ -cdrom /home/kvm_autotest_root/iso/windows/virtio-win-prewhql-0.1-290.iso \ -device piix3-usb-uhci,id=usb -device usb-tablet,id=input0 \ -vnc :10 \ -rtc base=localtime,clock=host,driftfix=slew \ -boot order=cdn,once=c,menu=off,strict=off \ -enable-kvm \ -qmp tcp:0:1231,server,nowait \ -monitor stdio \ -drive file=/usr/share/edk2/ovmf/OVMF_CODE.secboot.fd,if=pflash,format=raw,unit=0,readonly=on \ -drive file=/home/OVMF_VARS.fd,if=pflash,format=raw,unit=1 \ -device ioport=1285,driver="pvpanic"
- clones
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RHEL-30199 BSOD screen doesn't show up with VirtIO VGA
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- Closed
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- is related to
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RHEL-85712 [BUG] Using emulated VGA device prevents Windows VMs from properly BSOD
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- New
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