Re: 2.6.21.1 and kvm-21 just plain stopped...

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

David Brown wrote:
> Yeah, for some reason part way through the boot up of a guest OS it
> just stops booting, there isn't any sort of defined place where it
> stops either. However, the guest OS does always get to the initrd (but
> that maybe because the kernel is so simple). Sometimes it will get all
> the way to the root hard drive and init but it usually doesn't get
> further than running udev and then it just stops.
>
> I'm running 2.6.21.1 vanilla using the kvm-21 (that includes kernel
> modules), the guest OS is debian unstable running their version of
> 2.6.18.
>
> This seems like some sort of timer issue.  The tickless code and high
> resolution timer code don't seem to make any difference, I tested with
> both. Also, I didn't experience this issue with 2.6.20 using kvm-21.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.

Host cpu type, host bitness, guest bitness, and qemu command line please.


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


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