Re: [ANNOUNCE] kvm-46 release

Avi Kivity
2007-10-10T11:58:16Z

Farkas Levente wrote:
>>> we did a quick test against this version and it's turn out the smp
>>> guests are still not working. even if we start only one linux guest with
>>> 4cpu on 4cpu host the guest kernel hangs at random stages of the kernel
>>> loading process (if we run more smp guests then they hang earlier, but
>>> different random stage), but it's never reach the end of the kernel so
>>> hang somewhere inside the kernel. and the cpu usage of these process
>>> goes up to until the qemu-kvm processes eat all cpus (ie. 100%). t
>>>
>> What host cpu are you using? What guest kernel version? 32-bit or 64-bit?
>>
>> I have no problems running a 4-way Linux guest here.
>>
>
> - host:
> - Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz
> - Intel S3000AHV
> - 8GB RAM
> - CentOS-5
> - kernel-2.6.18-8.1.14.el5 x86_64 64bit
> - guest-1:
> - CentOS-5
> - kernel-2.6.18-8.1.14.el5 i386 32bit
> - guest-2:
> - CentOS-5
> - kernel-2.6.18-8.1.14.el5 x86_64 64bit
> - guest-3:
> - Mandrake-9
> - kernel-2.4.19.16mdk-1-1mdk 32bit
> - guest-4:
> - Windows XP Professional 32bit
>
> start the first guest-1 with 4cpu produce the above hang. (and of course
> using kvm-46:-)
>
>

Is it the only guest that hangs with -smp 4? Or all of them?

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