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

[Tom London]

On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 6:03 AM, James Laska <jlaska at redhat.com> wrote:
> 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
>

I reported this earlier at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=560031

The workaround described there continues to "work for me": downgrade
udev to udev-147-2.fc13.

tom
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Tom London