From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Anthony Liguori Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] kvm-72 release Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 08:26:54 -0500 Message-ID: <488DC91E.50505@codemonkey.ws> References: <4e9085270807271528g2c4c574byef72b4e66a2ae74f@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org To: Henrik Holst Return-path: Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.184.231]:29435 "EHLO wr-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750790AbYG1N1b (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jul 2008 09:27:31 -0400 Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id 69so3834439wri.5 for ; Mon, 28 Jul 2008 06:27:30 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4e9085270807271528g2c4c574byef72b4e66a2ae74f@mail.gmail.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Henrik Holst wrote: > There is a boot regression in kvm-72: > > scsi and virtio images will not survive a "reboot" from within the > guest. Only drives with if=ide survives a rebooting of the guest. > > That is, this will create a guest that will survive any number of reboots: > qemu-system-x86_64 -M -drive file=a,if=ide,media=disk,boot=on -boot c > > While this will only survive the first boot: > qemu-system-x86_64 -M -drive file=a,if=scsi,media=disk,boot=on -boot c OR > qemu-system-x86_64 -M -drive file=a,if=virtio,media=disk,boot=on -boot c > What does "survive" mean? > Also the extboot work done by H. Peter Anvin finally makes the newer > isolinux menus to work but the older isolinux (for example the > installer to ubuntu 7.10) Ubuntu doesn't use isolinux, it uses gfxboot. Older versions of gfxboot are known to be broken with KVM on Intel. Regards, Anthony Liguori > still does not work. It no longer segfaults > though but instead the guest completely hangs. Much improvement > though! > > /Henrik Holst > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >