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From: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/15] Coalesce userspace/kernel irqchip interrupt injection
 logic.
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:26:39 +0200
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Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>, kvm@vger.kernel.org
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Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov wrote:
> Gleb Natapov wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 01:30:29PM +0400, Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov wrote:
>>> qemu-x86_64 version 0.10.2 running on i386
>>> Due to problems with qemu-x86_64 I have to boot the 'host' kernel
>>> with 'noapic'.
>> Do you mean boot 'guest' kernel with noapic? The guest is what runs
>> inside qemu. So you are able to boot guest with 'noapic'?
>>
>> What is the command line you are using.
> 
> Well, since this caused lot's of questions, here is my setup:
> 
> Main host: Debian squeeze, kernel 2.6.28 or .29 (doesn't matter),
> qemu-system-x86_64 version 0.10.2
> 
> KVM kernel run inside qemu: e3dbe3f408a46a045012f1882e9f62b27b8a616c
> from Avi's tree (KVM: x86 emulator: fix call near emulation) + these
> patches. I have to boot the kernels (both this kernel and 2.6.26 from
> debian) with noapic to w/around APIC problems (I dunno if it's qemu or
> bochsbios problem).

And the bios you are using with 0.10.2 is from 0.10.2 (when in doubt,
specify explicitly with -bios and/or -L)? Then this would be a QEMU
upstream bug.

Jan

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