From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon Subject: Re: Solaris 10 x86_64 guest on kvm keeps restarting Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 13:30:48 -0600 Message-ID: <20081111193047.GA1569@tapir> References: <736bc7b60811110521j56000b0dl7d2d874b975a6dec@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org To: mr ashok Return-path: Received: from tapir.sajinet.com.pe ([66.139.79.212]:52810 "EHLO tapir.sajinet.com.pe" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751006AbYKKT1t (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Nov 2008 14:27:49 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <736bc7b60811110521j56000b0dl7d2d874b975a6dec@mail.gmail.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 06:51:26PM +0530, mr ashok wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a F9 box with 2.6.27.4-58.fc10.x86_64 version installed with > kvm-74-5.fc10.x86_64 installed. you are going to need a patched version of the kvm module to be able to run Solaris 10 amd64 as explained in the Guest Support Status page. patch is available from : http://tapir.sajinet.com.pe/gentoo/portage/app-emulation/kvm/files/kvm-57-kernel-longmode.patch > The solaris fail-safe does work though fail-safe runs in 32bit mode and doesn't need the patch. > Any ideas as to why this happens. because of the following bug : http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1842160&group_id=180599&atid=893831 it has been apparently worked around in OpenSolaris, but the patch from kvm was reverted because it somehow affected windows 64bit, which I am sure is by far a more common guest. Carlo