From: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
To: Mark Blakeney <mark.blakeney@bullet-systems.net>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Fwd: Problem booting 32 bit guest on 64 bit host using kvm
Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2013 14:58:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130102125824.GR17584@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMgy+8N=JusZS4bujbAC+d21P4-GJGeWd9A+W3L4xL1_AptYFQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Jan 02, 2013 at 10:26:55PM +1000, Mark Blakeney wrote:
> FYI, I just discovered that I can make my Solaris guest boot every
> time in kvm by specifying an interactive boot at the boot prompt and
> then just hand stepping through the default prompts. Presumably there
> is a timing issue in the guest boot sequence which kvm is exposing
> when running natively on my new current gen cpu + ssd box. It seems
> slowing down the boot artificially by hand stepping, or by running
> with -no-kvm, or by running on my older hardware + hdd, avoids this.
>
Interesting. Thanks for the update and report back if you will find
something new please.
> So sorry but this seems likely a bug in the old Solaris 2.5.1 guest OS
> when running on modern fast hardware(?). Now I know about this
> interactive boot option I can just use it to boot each time. There are
> only 3 quick prompts so it is not really a bother.
>
> The guest runs fine in kvm after booting so this speed related bug is
> only during the initial boot sequence.
>
> Thanks for your help.
--
Gleb.
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[not found] <CAMgy+8MmP+mkN0Ox6qvcGuWuJK6Dq5qSuEbawQRvsodxm41roA@mail.gmail.com>
2013-01-01 1:17 ` [Qemu-devel] Fwd: Problem booting 32 bit guest on 64 bit host using kvm Mark Blakeney
2013-01-01 10:08 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-01-01 11:17 ` Mark Blakeney
2013-01-01 11:30 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-01-01 12:42 ` Mark Blakeney
2013-01-01 14:17 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-01-02 7:35 ` Mark Blakeney
2013-01-02 9:40 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-01-02 12:26 ` Mark Blakeney
2013-01-02 12:58 ` Gleb Natapov [this message]
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