From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dustin Kirkland Subject: Re: kvm-84 + virtio Ubuntu Hardy guests Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2009 11:08:56 -0700 Message-ID: <1239041336.4101.5.camel@x61> References: <1239039800.16273.67.camel@blaa> Reply-To: kirkland@canonical.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "kvm@vger.kernel.org" To: Mark McLoughlin Return-path: Received: from adelie.canonical.com ([91.189.90.139]:53393 "EHLO adelie.canonical.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752395AbZDFSNK (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Apr 2009 14:13:10 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1239039800.16273.67.camel@blaa> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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