Have been struggling for the past couple months to get Xen hardware virtualization working on this Corebooted laptop. Paravirtualized VMs work, but whenever I start a fully virtualized VM (HVM) it hard freezes the entire system- no keyboard or mouse response. No related output is showing in any logs, maybe because it's freezing too fast.
I'm not entirely sure if this is a Coreboot or Xen issue so I'm trying to rule out Coreboot. Would anyone on the list be able to provide a known good G505s Coreboot .config that is working with fully hardware virtualized VMs, preferably under Xen 4.8.2 or another recent version? KVM or ESXi might be OK too; should also let me narrow down the problem domain.
One odd thing found from boot logs is:
[ 6.744165] microcode: CPU0: patch_level=0x00000000 [ 6.744205] microcode: CPU1: patch_level=0x00000000 [ 6.744220] microcode: CPU2: patch_level=0x00000000 [ 6.744227] microcode: CPU3: patch_level=0x00000000 [ 6.744290] microcode: Microcode Update Driver: v2.01
and the cpu_microcode_blob is 0 bytes even though I set the menuconfig options:
CONFIG_USE_BLOBS=y CONFIG_CPU_MICROCODE_CBFS_GENERATE=y
Name Offset Type Size Comp cbfs master header 0x0 cbfs header 32 none cpu_microcode_blob.bin 0x80 microcode 0 none fallback/ramstage 0x100 stage 129898 none payload_revision 0x1fcc0 raw 239 none (empty) 0x1fe00 null 152 none apu/amdfw 0x1fec0 raw 131072 none fallback/romstage 0x3ff00 stage 320844 none config 0x8e4c0 raw 528 none revision 0x8e740 raw 568 none cmos_layout.bin 0x8e9c0 cmos_layout 1164 none pci1002,990b.rom 0x8eec0 optionrom 61952 none fallback/postcar 0x9e140 stage 13268 none fallback/dsdt.aml 0xa1580 raw 9435 none img/coreinfo 0xa3ac0 payload 102264 none img/nvramcui 0xbca80 payload 141596 none fallback/payload 0xdf400 payload 63860 none payload_config 0xeedc0 raw 1563 none img/memtest 0xef440 payload 180268 none (empty) 0x11b4c0 null 2968024 none s3nv 0x3efec0 raw 32768 none (empty) 0x3f7f00 null 31192 none bootblock 0x3ff900 bootblock 1424 none
Is that normal for an A10-5750M APU? This is the first machine I've attempted to Coreboot so maybe I'm missing something obvious.