Re: mandrake-10 not able to boot on kvm-71-73

[Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>]

Farkas Levente wrote:
> Farkas Levente wrote:
>   
>> Avi Kivity wrote:
>>     
>>> Farkas Levente wrote:
>>>       
>>>> ok i don't know any other solution so
>>>> - install kvm-71 to the host
>>>> - install a guest mandrake-10 truly minimal install into file image
>>>> - upgrade to kvm-76 and the guest no longer boot.
>>>> so i've uploaded it for you into:
>>>> ftp://ftp.bppiac.hu/mandrake.img.bz2
>>>> (this is the bzip-ed image:-)
>>>> can you try to boot this image with kvm-76 (or anything later than
>>>> kvm-71)?
>>>>   
>>>>         
>>> Just ran this on my desktop, it booted fine...
>>>       
>> getting more and more strange:-(
>> ok which disto, kernel, etc..
>> could you test in with a minimal fully updated centos-5 with these rpms:
>> http://www.lfarkas.org/linux/packages/centos/5/x86_64/kmod-kvm-2.6.18-92.1.13.el5-76-1.x86_64.rpm
>>     
>
>
> ok what else can i do?
>   

> or it's getting more and more unusable to use rhel-5 as the host os
> (which is strage after rh buy qumranet) and would be better to switch to
> fedora?
>   

RHEL 5 continues to be supported.  This problem is strange, that's all.

If you have a test machine, it would be good to try it out on Fedora.  I 
don't see how a distro change can cause this though.

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