Re: [ANNOUNCE] kvm-52 release

Izik Eidus
2007-11-12T15:46:27Z

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?
>
> with smp:
> - centos 32bit guest hang during boot at different places (see screenshot).
work for me (2.6.23.1)

> - centos 64bit guest boot but crash (or at least dump stack strace on
work for me
> console) the other screenshot.
> - winxp guest are hang during boot.
work for me
>
> setup:
> - 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
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