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Kaspersky AV does not install under qemu-kvm windows installation

Bug #496661 reported by Antonio Broughton on 2009-12-14

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	linux (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Medium	Unassigned
	Lucid	Invalid	Medium	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: qemu-kvm

Running Karmic Ubuntu Server on a Quad Core Phenom II processor.

I am running a Windows XP Service Pack 3 installation (under KVM), and I tried to install Kaspersky Internet Security 2010, however, after installation, Windows XP VM blue screens, then reboots.

http://forum.kaspersky.com/index.php?showtopic=148735 includes some information about my computer (down a bit has link to information about my VM install)

Aparently, QEMU does not work with Kaspersky, however, a quick google search of "qemu kaspersky", and I found that CentOS has fixed this issue?

http://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/ASP/i386/updates/12.1/x86_64/kvm-qemu-img-83-105.el5_4.13.asp121.x86_64.html

has the following:
- kvm-kernel-kvm-x86-ignore-reads-to-perfctr-msrs.patch [bz#482423]
- Resolves: bz#482423 - Kaspersky AV crash the VM after installation

I cannot find out where bz#482423 is though, but seems like CentOS has fixed this issue...

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Antonio Broughton (anacarda) wrote on 2010-01-24:

Just wondering if anyone has anything else to add to this? maybe your seeing the same sort of issues I am? or maybe interested in fixing it, seeing as though rhel5 _seems_ to have fixed the problem.

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Chuck Short (zulcss) wrote on 2010-01-25:

kvm-kernel-kvm-x86-ignore-reads-to-perfctr-msrs.patch Edit (1.8 KiB, text/x-diff)

This patch supposedly fixes this issue.

Regards
chuck

affects:

qemu-kvm (Ubuntu) → linux (Ubuntu)

Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland) on 2010-01-27

Changed in linux (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Triaged
importance:	Undecided → Medium
assignee:	nobody → Andy Whitcroft (apw)

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Antonio Broughton (anacarda) wrote on 2010-04-24:

just to advise people, that this issue is fixed in lucid...

just installed lucid now, and kaspersky installed fine, so would have been the Kernel update that did it (which includes the patch provided earlier)

Andy Whitcroft (apw) on 2010-06-18

Changed in linux (Ubuntu Lucid):
assignee:	Andy Whitcroft (apw) → nobody
Changed in linux (Ubuntu):
assignee:	Andy Whitcroft (apw) → nobody

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penalvch (penalvch) wrote on 2013-09-09:

Antonio, this bug report is being closed due to your last comment https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/496661/comments/3 regarding this being fixed with an update. For future reference you can manage the status of your own bugs by clicking on the current status in the yellow line and then choosing a new status in the revealed drop down box. You can learn more about bug statuses at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Status. Thank you again for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please submit any future bugs you may find.