Re: kvm-84 and guests with more than 3536 MB Ram?

[Lukas Kolbe <l-lists@einfachkaffee.de>]

Am Dienstag, den 24.03.2009, 15:40 -0500 schrieb Ryan Harper:

Hi Ryan,

> > > Doesn't he say that it did work for him with kvm-72, but does not with 
> > > kvm-84?
> > 
> > Exactly that :)
> > kvm-72 works like a charm, with the noted exception that it crashes
> > every now and than on our system (during heavy load), which was the
> > reason we tried 084 in the first place.
> 
> running kvm-84 with -m 8192 -- passes memtest on ubuntu 8.10 x86_64
> server cd.  Maybe wrong bios?  From kvm-84 make install, I have:
> 
> % md5sum /usr/local/share/qemu/bios.bin 
> 470d43e4838be608a2447b23a9f83d90  /usr/local/share/qemu/bios.bin

Hm, ours is

% md5sum /usr/share/kvm/bios.bin
a1dbfc18f5f5656da939cc8c243741da  /usr/share/kvm/bios.bin

I'll try to circumvent debian and install kvm-84 from the vanilla
sources to see wether it makes a difference, in the meantime I'll open a
bug report with debian.

-- 
Lukas