Re: KVM behaves weird on AMD64

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

Miguel Araujo wrote:
> Avi Kivity escribió:
>> Miguel Araujo wrote:
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>> I have recently compiled kvm-36 in my Ubuntu Desktop 7.04 64 bits 
>>> running 2.6.22. I can load the AMD module without problems. The 
>>> issue started when I tried to install OpenBSD 4.1 on a Virtual 
>>> Machine and It could not manage to write the MBR on disk. That 
>>> should not happen. I also tried to install an Ubuntu desktop and 
>>> server machines 32 bits and both of them got stuck on installation 
>>> when configuring fdutils, I have no idea why this happens.
>>>
>>> Eventually I get to install a Debian netinstall with the most basic 
>>> configuration and it worked. These are the tests I have made. By the 
>>> way I checked that the Ubuntu machines did write in my 4G feisty.img 
>>> file.
>>>
>>> Is anyone having problems with AMD64 and 2.6.22 kernels? Has anyone 
>>> a hint about what could I do to get these machines running?
>>>
>>>   
>>
>> What was the last kvm version where this worked correctly?
>>
>
> I'm using two machines for testing KVM. In machine "A" KVM worked 
> good. This is a Feisty 7.04 32 bits with 2.6.20-16 Ubuntu standard 
> kernel  with kvm installed apt way.

Is this an Intel or an AMD machine?

> The machine "B" is the one I have mentioned before and It's using a 
> 2.6.22 manually compiled kernel. It has been able to install only 
> Debian netinstall. I would like to know if there is some kind of issue 
> with kvm and this kernel or with AMD64.
>
It doesn't seem to be related to the machine being AMD.  If you can 
provide an example where just one thing being different causes something 
to stop working, that would help us isolate the problem.  Examples can 
be the host kernel, host cpu type, or kvm version.

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