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From: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.16 Guest Hangs on Boot
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 09:56:05 +0200
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Cc: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
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On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 03:52:17PM +0800, Alec Joseph Rivera wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 08:39 +0200, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 09:55:38AM +0800, Alec Joseph Rivera wrote:
> > > > That should give us a clue on what's going wrong.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > I did the steps you mentioned. Here's the gdb transcript:
> > > 
> > > $ gdb k12_1009 -ex 'target remote localhost:1234'
> > What is k12_1009? Are you sure this is vmlinux?
> > 
> 
> Hi Gleb:
> 
> Yes, k12_1009 is the kernel image that isolinux loads.
> 
> -- isolinux.cfg
> 
> > DEFAULT 1
> > TIMEOUT 100
> > PROMPT 1
> > DISPLAY isolinux.txt
> > LABEL 1
> >         KERNEL k12_1009
> >         APPEND ramdisk_size=32768 initrd=initrd root=/dev/ram 
> > LABEL 2
> >         KERNEL k12_1009
> >         APPEND ramdisk_size=32768 initrd=initrd root=/dev/ram BOOT_SUPPORT=1 
> 
> -- file test
> > $ file k12_1009 
> > k12_1009: Linux kernel x86 boot executable bzImage, version 2.6.16.54-0.2.5-bigsmp (geeko@b, RO-rootFS, root_dev 0x301, swap_dev 0x1, Normal VGA
> 
This is bzImage, You need corresponding vmlinux bzImage was created
from.

> > BTW what version on kvm/qemu are you using.
> > 
> 
> qemu's version is 0.12.5. modinfo kvm doesn't reveal any version string
> though, however the kernel is 2.6.35 from Arch.
> 
> Question: from what I've read so far kvm versions are of 'kvm-xx' where
> xx is a number, on sourceforge there is kvm-kmod-{kernel-version}, am I
> correct in assuming and saying then that my kvm version is 2.6.35?
> 
kvm-xx is deprecated. So when asked what kvm are you using you should
provide your kernel version like you did.

--
			Gleb.