From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ryan Harper Subject: Re: kvm-84 and guests with more than 3536 MB Ram? Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:27:40 -0500 Message-ID: <20090324212740.GF27104@us.ibm.com> References: <1237897377.10977.40.camel@vesuv.TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> <49C8D94B.9090709@redhat.com> <1237906054.18072.8.camel@vesuv.TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> <49C90012.1020700@codemonkey.ws> <49C90490.1070906@wpkg.org> <1237918035.4577.14.camel@larosa> <20090324204023.GE27104@us.ibm.com> <1237928531.4293.19.camel@larosa> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Ryan Harper , Tomasz Chmielewski , Anthony Liguori , Avi Kivity , kvm@vger.kernel.org To: Lukas Kolbe Return-path: Received: from e9.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.139]:53701 "EHLO e9.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751335AbZCXV1o (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:27:44 -0400 Received: from d01relay04.pok.ibm.com (d01relay04.pok.ibm.com [9.56.227.236]) by e9.ny.us.ibm.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id n2OLIUU8021309 for ; Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:18:30 -0400 Received: from d01av02.pok.ibm.com (d01av02.pok.ibm.com [9.56.224.216]) by d01relay04.pok.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v9.2) with ESMTP id n2OLRgZR178694 for ; Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:27:42 -0400 Received: from d01av02.pok.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d01av02.pok.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id n2OLQC0O017407 for ; Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:26:12 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1237928531.4293.19.camel@larosa> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: * Lukas Kolbe [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 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