[fedora-virt] [Fwd: Re: Applying Intel CPU microcode update]

[James Laska]

On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 08:22 -0500, James Laska wrote:
> Greetings folks,
> 
> Kamil and Siddhesh noted the following issue on test at lists.fp.org
> yesterday.  Thought it might be of interest to the virt community as
> well.

Well, scratch the previous message.  I'm seeing the same microcode_ctl
timing issue when booting a bare metal rawhide system.  This may not be
specific to virt guests at all.

Thanks,
James

> > -------- Forwarded Message --------
> > From: Kamil Paral <kparal at redhat.com>
> > Reply-to: For testers of Fedora development releases
> > <test at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> > To: For testers of Fedora development releases
> > <test at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> > Subject: Re: Applying Intel CPU microcode update
> > Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 08:12:44 -0500 (EST)
> > 
> > ----- "Siddhesh Poyarekar" <spoyarek at redhat.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 05:02:12AM -0500, Kamil Paral wrote:
> > > > I often use Rawhide in virt-manager using KVM. My host machine is
> > > Fedora
> > > > 12. Recently I noticed that booting Rawhide takes ages. After more
> > > careful
> > > > examination I found out that "Applying Intel CPU microcode update"
> > > line
> > > > pauses the system exactly for 1 minute. Then the boot continues. I
> > > don't
> > > > know if it is a problem in Rawhide or in some update of libvirt.
> > > > 
> > > > Anyone seen similar problem?
> > > 
> > > I've noticed this too. The `modprobe microcode` seems to take about a
> > > minute or so. This probably needs a bug report,
> > 
> > Ok, reported:
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=561824


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