Re: Test result for KVM, kernel 62d1ea7.. , userspace 667f2deff8..

Laurent Vivier
2007-09-24T14:16:37Z

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Avi Kivity wrote:
> Laurent Vivier wrote:
>> Avi Kivity wrote:
>>
>>> Farkas Levente wrote:
>>>
>>>> hi,
>>>> it seems we've got a real tester:-) for ma all of the bellow are
>>>> serious
>>>> bugs (tomorrow i'll try to send more detail of our host crash too) and
>>>> imho the latest 'stable' version was kvm-36. wouldn't be better to
>>>> postpone all patches and infrastructure changes (virtio and others)
>>>> until these have been fixed and try to produce a new 'stable' release?
>>>> i understand then everybody (including myself) would like to see these
>>>> new features in the latest and greatest kvm release, but at the same
>>>> time i'd be nice to think about the end users too.
>>>> may some version cane be labeled as stable (eg 36) and the latest as
>>>> devel. this can help a lot for those who are not read this list.
>>>>
>>> You can use -no-kvm-irqchip to get stability similar to kvm-36.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Perhaps a workaround for end user could be to disable by default kvm
>> irqchip and
>> add an option to enable it (--use-kvm-irqchip) ?
>>
>>
>
> I thought of it, but that would mean we wouldn't see the problems, so
> they wouldn't get fixed.

I agree: enabling by default development features allows you to have more bug
feedbacks. It's a choice...

Laurent
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