From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jan Kiszka Subject: Re: 0.11.0-rc1 bugs Date: Mon, 07 Sep 2009 12:22:03 +0200 Message-ID: <4AA4DECB.2090809@siemens.com> References: <4E3CA5E5-BB4E-4497-BB5B-747EB07C7310@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "kvm@vger.kernel.org list" To: Alexander Graf Return-path: Received: from thoth.sbs.de ([192.35.17.2]:24379 "EHLO thoth.sbs.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752770AbZIGKWD (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Sep 2009 06:22:03 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4E3CA5E5-BB4E-4497-BB5B-747EB07C7310@suse.de> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 -- Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT SE 2 Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux