Re: Guest support status page

Avi Kivity
2007-01-28T19:17:03Z

Fabian Deutsch wrote:
> Am Sonntag, den 28.01.2007, 20:16 +0200 schrieb Avi Kivity:
>
>> Fabian Deutsch wrote:
>>
>>> Well currently I'm using Fedora Core 6 as a host. And kvm doesn't work with all but the original kernel.
>>>
>>> title Fedora Core (2.6.19-1.2895.fc6) <-- Doesn't
>>> title Fedora Core (2.6.18-1.2869.fc6) <-- Doesn't
>>> title Fedora Core (2.6.18-1.2798.fc6) <-- Works
>>>
>>> I am currently not able to find out how.
>>>
>>>
>> It's working for me under 2.6.19-1.2895.fc6. Is there anything in
>> dmesg? What form does the failure take?
>>
>>
>>
>
> Well, after stressing the guest a couple of times for a couple of
> seconds, it starts to use 100% and the guest doesn't respond anymore.
>
> # uname -a
> Linux corevm 2.6.19-1.2895.fc6 #1 SMP Wed Jan 10 19:28:18 EST 2007 i686
> i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>
> # dmesg | grep kvm
> kvm: msrs: 2
> kvm: msrs: 2
> kvm: emulating exchange as write
>
> # top
> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
> 1625 root 25 0 564m 143m 138m R 100 4.0 4:32.77 qemu
>
> # cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep name
> model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6300 @ 1.86GHz
> model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6300 @ 1.86GHz
>
>
> the problem might be: different qemu and kvm-module version ... (older
> qemu, newer kvm), because afetr deleteing everything related to kvm and
> rebudiling it from a clean source. the problem seems to be gone ..
>
>

Okay, good... If it was you who put 2.6.19-1.2895.fc6 as non-working in
the wiki, then please remove it :)

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Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.