Re: kvm -kernel option (x86_64)

[Anthony Liguori <aliguori-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>]

Avi Kivity wrote:
> Alexander Graf wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> I just tried to run a kernel directly using the -kernel option on VMX.  
>> This worked with the kvm modules in the vanilla 2.6.24 kernel but  
>> breaks on the recent git. I have not tried any version in between.
>> This really looks like the x86 emulator is broken.
>>
>>   
>>     
>
> May also be userspace guest memory, which changes how memory is allocated.
>
>   

It looks like it broke somewhere between 
0fcf487831bbc48e720210c164ca9747b6e99af7 and kvm-52.  It's definitely a 
qemu issue as I'm currently using that git rev of kvm-userspace and 
kvm-52 kernel modules and it works just fine.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

>> Is this a known issue? 
>>     
>
> No, though -kernel is very useful on occasion.
>
>   
>> Are there any (easy) means to debug the emulator?
>>
>>   
>>     
>
> Bisect.
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>
>   


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