From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: mandrake-10 not able to boot on kvm-71-73 Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 19:36:15 +0300 Message-ID: <48B2DF7F.7050107@qumranet.com> References: <48B2C50A.8040708@lfarkas.org> <48B2D7B2.8000500@qumranet.com> <48B2DC6C.4000504@lfarkas.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net" To: Farkas Levente Return-path: Received: from il.qumranet.com ([212.179.150.194]:40563 "EHLO il.qumranet.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753796AbYHYQgQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:36:16 -0400 In-Reply-To: <48B2DC6C.4000504@lfarkas.org> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Farkas Levente wrote: > Avi Kivity wrote: > >> Farkas Levente wrote: >> >>> hi, >>> mandrake-10 are not able to boot on kvm 71-73 while it's working on >>> kvm-70. we noew try to install a minimal mandrake-10 from it's install >>> cd and after the first boot it has the same error: >>> lilo can't find keytable (or something like that). >>> booting from a rescue cd we still able to rerun lilo and it seems to >>> working, but not able to boot. >>> after we downgrade to kvm-70 the system boot without any problem. >>> >>> >>> >> Can you mix and match to see whether it is a userspace problem or kernel >> problem? >> >> e.g. kvm-71 userspace with kvm-70 modules, kvm-70 userspace with kvm-71 >> modules. >> > > yes. > kvm-73 with kmod-kvm-70: not working > kvm-70 with kmod-kvm-73: working > So it's userspace breakage. Can you check with kvm-71 userspace to be certain that the breakage occured in kvm-71? > is it totally safe to use higher kernel module then usersapce? i can i > leave it here as it now?: > kmod-kvm-2.6.18-92.1.10.el5-73-1 > kmod-kvm-73-1 > kvm-70-1 > Yes. Of course mixed versions are not tested by many people, but they are supported. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function