From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Tokarev Subject: Re: Cannot boot 2.6.35 SMP guest in 2.6.35 host Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2010 15:37:54 +0300 Message-ID: <4CCEB4A2.30806@msgid.tls.msk.ru> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org To: Richard Chan Return-path: Received: from isrv.corpit.ru ([86.62.121.231]:36687 "EHLO isrv.corpit.ru" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757387Ab0KAMh4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Nov 2010 08:37:56 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Richard Chan wrote: > I am having a problem with a Fedora 14 x86_64 host booting SMP 2.6.35.x guests. > The boot proceeds halfway but does not reach a shell or desktop. > Oddly the console echoes characters. > > I am using a AMD SVM system and found this: > https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/226981/ > Has this been resolved? 2.6.36.8 kernel which were released a few days ago contains 2 simple patches that addresses this issue. The same patches are needed for 2.6.32 kernel too, but they weren't applied to 2.6.32.25. I can't say anything about fedora kernels. This is all about host kernel, not guest one. /mjt