Re: qemu-kvm-0.12 bug?

[Thomas Treutner <thomas@scripty.at>]

On Thursday 24 December 2009 18:01:58 Thomas Treutner wrote:
> On Thursday 24 December 2009 15:26:59 Avi Kivity wrote:
> > On 12/24/2009 12:50 AM, Bernhard Held wrote:
> > >> Which solves this problem, but introduces the next. My VMs are stuck
> > >> at boot, after "SeaBIOS...gPXE" nothing happens.
> > >
> > > Similar problem here with 0.12.1.1.
> > >
> > > I prefer to start my linux guests with -kernel, -append and -initrd.
> > > With this options qemu-kvm stuck at boot.
> > >
> > > Windows 2k8 or CDROM images work flawless.
> > >
> > > 0.12.0-rc2 didn't show this bug.
> >
> > I just posted a fix for this.  It will be included with 0.12.1.2 or
> > 0.12.2.
>
> Yep, fixed the bug for me. thx!

...and made the next bug visible - I can't set the assigned memory by

$ virsh setmem domain kbyte

With -0.11, it works flawlessly. I tried 2.6.31.6, 2.6.32-rc5 and 2.6.32.2, it 
makes no difference. 

Is it a bug in KVM or are there some recent changes in KVM which aren't 
reflected by libvirt?


kr,tom