Re: [ANNOUNCE] kvm-52 release

Laurent Vivier
2007-11-13T09:26:56Z

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Hi Levente,

Le mardi 13 novembre 2007 à 10:07 +0100, Farkas Levente a écrit :
> Avi Kivity wrote:
> > Farkas Levente wrote:
> >> Avi Kivity wrote:
> >>
> >>> Farkas Levente wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> 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).
> >>>>
> >>> IIRC virt-manager uses /usr/bin/kvm as its qemu launcher. Maybe it is
> >>> running the old userspace. Can you ensure that you are using the new
> >>> userspace and new kernel modules at all times?
> >>>
> >> yes, it's sure. i always run rpm -Uvh kvm... kmod-kvm... and the reboot
> >> the host (just to be sure).
> >>
> >>
> >
> > Installing the files means nothing. You also need to make sure all your
> > tools use the right binaries (or use the command line directly).
>
> ohh come on. i use linux since 94 and i use redhat/rpm since redhat 3.0
> (not rhel3) i do know how to install and use packages and which files
> are called. there is no any other kvm in the given machine. ok i
> understand that you try to find some kind of reason why it's works for
> you and not for me but that's not the reason.
> anyway it'd be useful to if i can see which version of the userspace
> running ie. give a short message into the stslog on the host about the
> userspace version may be even a warning in case of the kmod and the
> userspace version are different, but currently that's all:
> ------------------------------------
> [root@kvm ~]# rpm -qa|grep kvm
> kmod-kvm-52-1.2.6.18_8.1.15.el5
> kvm-52-1
> [root@kvm ~]# rpm -qf /usr/bin/qemu-kvm
> kvm-52-1
> [root@kvm ~]# rpm -V kvm-52-1
> [root@kvm ~]# modinfo kvm_intel
> filename: /lib/modules/2.6.18-8.1.15.el5/extra/kvm/kvm-intel.ko
> license: GPL
> author: Qumranet
> version: kvm-52
> srcversion: F7E80D6C3124584F75EDAAF
> depends: kvm
> vermagic: 2.6.18-8.1.15.el5 SMP mod_unload gcc-4.1
> parm: bypass_guest_pf:bool
[snip]

perhaps you can try:

- "rpm -ql kvm-52-1"
- "rpm -qf /lib/modules/2.6.18-8.1.15.el5/extra/kvm/kvm-intel.ko"
- "find /lib/modules -name kvm.ko"
- "find /lib/modules -name kvm-intel.ko"
- "type qemu-kvm"

Just to be sure there is no garbage on your system...

Regards,
Laurent
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