Re: [ANNOUNCE] kvm-46 release

Avi Kivity
2007-10-10T11:28:30Z

Farkas Levente wrote:
> Avi Kivity wrote:
>
>> We've now switched to allocating guest memory in userspace rather than
>> in the kernel. This is important if you have a mainframe, but also if
>> you want to share memory between guests and implement nice features like
>> swapping.
>>
>
> 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.

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