Re: [ANNOUNCE] kvm-52 release

Izik Eidus
2007-11-12T15:56:57Z

On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 16:48 +0100, Farkas Levente wrote:
> Alexey Eremenko wrote:
> > Hi Levente !
> >
> > The only idea that I have for you is to: Try to run KVM on newer kernel.
> > (2.6.21+)
> >
> > I did all of what you said on Fedora 7/x64 host (2.6.21 default kernel)
> > and it all worked ! (except Mandrake 9.0, which I don't have)
>
> that's exactly which i'm not really want!
> i really like to keep at a standard distributed upstream patched kernel.
> we never would like to use non redhat/centos kernel on servers. we all
> have fedora on our workstations, but (probably that's way) we all knows
> the stability of these kernels. ok currently kvm also bring the hosts
> and the guest to the same level or even worse, but i hope it'd change in
> the near feature (the only thing i want a stable smp guest kvm and
> probably won't update it for a while).
> i can try a fedora kernel just for test but wouldn't like to switch the
> whole host os and it's not so trivial to change only the kernel under
> redhat/centos (there are udev and other dependencies).
>
you are 100% right!
it should work the same (just little slower) on older kernels
it is a bug that it dont work to you, i just asked you to see if it
related to be beacuse you run on a diffrent kernel than i do,
anyway i will try to check it out on centos 2.6.18 kernel
and we will try to fix it.