Re: kvm-84 and guests with more than 3536 MB Ram?

[Ryan Harper <ryanh@us.ibm.com>]

* Lukas Kolbe <l-lists@einfachkaffee.de> [2009-03-24 16:04]:
> 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.

you can test kvm-84 bios with:

% cd kvm-84/qemu
% ./x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64 -L pc-bios <all your other options>

That will force qemu to look in the kvm-84 pc-bios dir for bios instead
of /usr/local/share/qemu

if *that* works, then you didn't make install kvm-84, and running with
mismatched bios bins is sure way screw things up.


-- 
Ryan Harper
Software Engineer; Linux Technology Center
IBM Corp., Austin, Tx
ryanh@us.ibm.com