Re: kvm: get_dirty_pages returned -2 (kvm-15)

[Avi Kivity <avi-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>]

Larry Matter wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I installed kvm-15 on my AMD-64 box running 32bit fedora core 6.  I ran
> into the modprobe issues already mentioned so I dropped back to kvm-14.
>
> This worked then I started getting the get_dirty_pages error.  Searching
> the list I saw the patch from Avi which solved the modprobe issues and I
> went back to kvm-15.  But I am still getting the get_dirty_pages error;
> not sure if this is related to bug 1661262 or not.
>
> My command line is:
>
> /usr/local/kvm/bin/qemu -m 512 -std-vga -soundhw es1370 -net
> nic,macaddr=<removed>,vlan=0 -net
> tap,ifname=tap0,vlan=0,script=/etc/qemu-ifup -boot c -hda
> /mnt/windows/windows.img
>
>   

Can you try stracing to see if it's a kernel or userspace problem?

prefix your command line with

   strace -e trace=ioctl -e signal=none -o /tmp/kvm.trace 
/usr/local/bin/qemu...

and then post the result of

   grep ENOENT /tmp/kvm.trace

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function


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