Re: 0.11.0-rc1 bugs

[Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>]

Alexander Graf wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> while trying out 0.11.0-rc1 I stumbled across several bugs and wanted to
> share them with you, so whoever feels bored knows what's left to do out
> there :-)

You may want to try the latest stable-0.11 branch which is close to
0.11.0-rc2. Should resolve at least some of your issues.

> 
> Unless I'm completely stupid, all of the following cases worked with
> 0.10.6 on the same machine (kernel, kvm-kmod).
> Linux with IDE as guest works great.
> 
> My kernel configuration:
> 
>   OpenSUSE 11.1 with 2.6.27 kernel and kvm-kmod-2.6.30.1.
> 
> Bugs:
> 
>   - Xen doesn't boot (fails with "..MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not
> connected to IO-APIC")

I've seen such issue with SLES10 2.6.16 and "notsc" kernel parameter.
Didn't dig deeper though.

> 
>   - Mac OS X boots for a bit, then qemu-kvm exit(1)'s with
> "hpet_disable_pit: kvm does not support pit_state2!"
>     It even breaks with -no-hpet! -no-kvm-pit works around it.
> 
>   - extboot doesn't get installed
> 
>   - extboot doesn't work (-drive ...,if=virtio,boot=on fails)
> 

The last two are solved in stable-0.11.

> 
> If you find additional problems in 0.11.0-rc1 or found that I only did
> something wrong, please reply to this thread.
> 
> Alex

Jan

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