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

[Farkas Levente <lfarkas@lfarkas.org>]

Avi Kivity wrote:
> 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.
> 

did you test is on rhel-5 or not?

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