From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lukas Kolbe Subject: Re: kvm-84 and guests with more than 3536 MB Ram? Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 22:02:11 +0100 Message-ID: <1237928531.4293.19.camel@larosa> References: <1237897377.10977.40.camel@vesuv.TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> <49C8D94B.9090709@redhat.com> <1237906054.18072.8.camel@vesuv.TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> <49C90012.1020700@codemonkey.ws> <49C90490.1070906@wpkg.org> <1237918035.4577.14.camel@larosa> <20090324204023.GE27104@us.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Tomasz Chmielewski , Anthony Liguori , Avi Kivity , kvm@vger.kernel.org To: Ryan Harper Return-path: Received: from core.mokelbu.de ([85.10.222.94]:46628 "EHLO core.mokelbu.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752861AbZCXVDq (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:03:46 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20090324204023.GE27104@us.ibm.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Am Dienstag, den 24.03.2009, 15:40 -0500 schrieb Ryan Harper: Hi Ryan, > > > Doesn't he say that it did work for him with kvm-72, but does not with > > > kvm-84? > > > > Exactly that :) > > kvm-72 works like a charm, with the noted exception that it crashes > > every now and than on our system (during heavy load), which was the > > reason we tried 084 in the first place. > > running kvm-84 with -m 8192 -- passes memtest on ubuntu 8.10 x86_64 > server cd. Maybe wrong bios? From kvm-84 make install, I have: > > % md5sum /usr/local/share/qemu/bios.bin > 470d43e4838be608a2447b23a9f83d90 /usr/local/share/qemu/bios.bin Hm, ours is % md5sum /usr/share/kvm/bios.bin a1dbfc18f5f5656da939cc8c243741da /usr/share/kvm/bios.bin I'll try to circumvent debian and install kvm-84 from the vanilla sources to see wether it makes a difference, in the meantime I'll open a bug report with debian. -- Lukas