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From: Dustin Kirkland <kirkland@canonical.com>
To: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Cc: "kvm@vger.kernel.org" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: kvm-84 + virtio Ubuntu Hardy guests
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2009 11:08:56 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1239041336.4101.5.camel@x61> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1239039800.16273.67.camel@blaa>

On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 18:43 +0100, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> The problem here is that 2.6.24/5 vintage guests are saying they
> support
> something they don't. See this for further details:
> 
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2009-01/msg00574.html

Agreed, understood.  And those kernels should be patched.

However, it's a bit of a chicken/egg problem...  One can't even boot
those guests (with virtio) to update the kernel, as it panics on boot
(without the kvm hack).


:-Dustin


  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-06 18:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-01  0:28 kvm-84 + virtio Ubuntu Hardy guests Dustin Kirkland
2009-04-06 16:55 ` Dustin Kirkland
2009-04-06 17:43   ` Mark McLoughlin
2009-04-06 18:08     ` Dustin Kirkland [this message]
2009-04-06 23:02       ` Anthony Liguori

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