From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Farkas Levente Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] kvm-52 release Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 17:48:04 +0100 Message-ID: <473883C4.8040405@bppiac.hu> References: <47384377.70004@qumranet.com> <47387146.706@bppiac.hu> <1194882388.3983.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> <47387A44.3090604@bppiac.hu> <1194884867.3161.12.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm-devel , Avi Kivity To: Izik Eidus Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1194884867.3161.12.camel-bi+AKbBUZKY6gyzm1THtWbp2dZbC/Bob@public.gmane.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: kvm-devel-bounces-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Errors-To: kvm-devel-bounces-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org Izik Eidus wrote: > On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 17:07 +0100, Farkas Levente wrote: >> Izik Eidus wrote: >>> On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 16:29 +0100, Farkas Levente wrote: >>>> Avi Kivity wrote: >>>>> Small fixes and updates. >>>>> >>>>> Changes from kvm-51: >>>>> - fix efer reload host crash on T2600 and similar processors >>>>> - revert sleepy interrupt injection >>>>> - fixes "Fault when IDT_Vectoring" >>>>> - atomically inject real-mode interrupts >>>>> - wbinvd exiting on newer Intel processors (Eddie Dong) >>>>> - fixes real-time issues >>>>> - fix call/jmp instruction emulation (Izik Eidus) >>>>> - fixes Vista x64 installation >>>>> - fix save/restore/migrate with multiple nics >>>>> - fix build on i386 uniprocessor w/ no ioapic hosts >>>>> - fix smp_call_function_single() emulation on older hosts >>>>> - fixes smp guests not booting on RHEL 5 hosts >>>>> - make qemu/kvm memory allocation match plain qemu more closely (Izik Eidus) >>>>> - fixes issues with large memory guests >>>>> - libkvm compile fixes (Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon, Jerone Young) >>>> still not working for us, there is even a small regression. >>> wow, what host kernel are you using? >> see bellow:-) >> are you think i manually create the screenshots?:-)? >> >>>> with smp: >>>> - centos 32bit guest hang during boot at different places (see screenshot). >>> work for me (2.6.23.1) >> there is no such kernel for redhat/centos! we use a clean upstream fully >> updated centos (ie. the kernel actually 2.6.18-8.1.15:-) >> > > ok this is hard to catch, i tried to use centos 5 kernel 2.6.18-8.el5 > and ran smp guest, (centos5 64 and winxp32) and it worked for me > you have any idea what i can do to make my system look more like your? > what could be diffrent? first of all fully update your centos (a bit newer kernel), then i use these packages: http://www.lfarkas.org/linux/packages/centos/5/x86_64/ use libvirtd and virt-manager too and start the guests from there. and start them manually paralell (i used to reboot the host when i update kvm, the start virt-manager and start each guests). anyway may be a newer processor generate the same result as ours. or if you can send me any kind of debug kvm version i can run it which can print any additional debug messages etc... i can just repeat my setup: - host: - Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz - Intel S3000AHV - 8GB RAM - CentOS-5 - kernel-2.6.18-8.1.15.el5 x86_64 64bit - guest-1: - CentOS-5 - kernel-2.6.18-8.1.15.el5 i386 32bit - guest-2: - CentOS-5 - kernel-2.6.18-8.1.15.el5 x86_64 64bit packages on the host: # rpm -qa|egrep "virt|vnc|kvm"|sort gtk-vnc-0.2.0-4 gtk-vnc-python-0.2.0-4 kmod-kvm-52-1.2.6.18_8.1.15.el5 kvm-52-1 libvirt-0.3.3-2 libvirt-python-0.3.3-2 python-virtinst-0.300.1-3 virt-manager-0.5.2-2 virt-top-0.3.2.8-1 virt-viewer-0.0.2-2 vnc-4.1.2-9.el5 the two guest config in libvirtd are the following: devel-i386.xml: ------------------------------------------------------------- devel-i386 dee4ab98-363c-649f-4a02-fef25b17756b 2097152 2097152 1 hvm destroy restart destroy /usr/bin/qemu-kvm ------------------------------------------------------------- devel-x86-64.xml: ------------------------------------------------------------- devel-x86-64 9436bef1-aef9-2f5c-21cf-123e300fcd27 524288 524288 1 hvm destroy restart destroy /usr/bin/qemu-kvm ------------------------------------------------------------- -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/