Re: [ANNOUNCE] kvm-52 release

Farkas Levente
2007-11-12T16:07:32Z

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:-)

>> - 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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