From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marcelo Tosatti Subject: Re: [patch 00/13] out of sync shadow v3 Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:37:03 -0200 Message-ID: <20081015023703.GA829@dmt.cnet> References: <20080922191627.671519725@localhost.localdomain> <1224009430.28312.24.camel@2710p.home> <1224022090.28312.32.camel@2710p.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Avi Kivity , kvm@vger.kernel.org To: Alex Williamson Return-path: Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:46702 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751257AbYJOCiW (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Oct 2008 22:38:22 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1224022090.28312.32.camel@2710p.home> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 04:08:10PM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote: > On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 12:37 -0600, Alex Williamson wrote: > > I'm seeing problems with this using a Debian Lenny guest, it gets glibc > > realloc errors in the init scripts/initramfs. Using -no-kvm or setting > > oos_shadow=0 works around the problem. I also confirmed it was > > introduced in commit 641fb03992b20aa640781a245f6b7136f0b845e4. It > > should be reproducible using an install from this media: > > > > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/lenny_di_beta2/i386/iso-cd/debian-LennyBeta2-i386-businesscard.iso > > > > Host system is running 2.6.27 x86_64 on Intel Xeon E5450. After > > install, the guest fails to get to a login prompt w/o the above > > workarounds. Running the guest as: > > > > /usr/local/kvm/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -L /usr/local/kvm/share/qemu > > -drive file=/dev/VM/Debian,if=ide,index=0 -m 512 -net nic -net user > > -vnc :1 > > I forgot to mention that this only happens with the Debian 2.6.26 > kernel, if you end up with the 2.6.24 kernel after install, try an > 'apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade' and reboot to get the newer > kernel. Hi Alex, Can you try http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.kvm.devel/23044