From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: david ahern Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] kvm-52 release Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 10:09:41 -0700 Message-ID: <473888D5.20603@cisco.com> 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> <473883C4.8040405@bppiac.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm-devel , Avi Kivity To: Farkas Levente Return-path: In-Reply-To: <473883C4.8040405-lWVWdrzSO4GHXe+LvDLADg@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 Can you post the full qemu command that gets launched in each case? david Farkas Levente wrote: > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/