Hi,
installing Solairs 10/08 x86 crashes the Host-Kernel on my
System.
System: Intel Q6600-base, Fedora 9 x86_64, lastest Kernel
Version 2.6.26.6-79.fc9.x86_64, kvm completely replaced
by kvm-77 (Modules und Userspace).

My 'standard' kvm-commandline:
kvm -smp 2 -m 3072 -net nic,macaddr=DE:AD:BE:EF:02:01,model=e1000 -net
tap,script=no -drive
index=0,media=disk,if=ide,file=/dev/hydra/opensol0508  -cdrom
/home/iso/sol-10-u6-ga1-x86-dvd.iso -boot d  -daemonize

Desription: The VM boots the Solaris installkernel using
Grub. While booting, Solaris already fails to configure the
NIC, detected as e1000g0. This should not happen, since the
above Network-Config allows access to the DHCP-Server.
After choosing the 'Solaris interactive Installation", the
System walks through the initial configuration dialog up
to the point, were it starts the graphical installer. The
graphics-Screen fails to detect the mouse and falls back
to the text-session. After configuring the Network (either
manually, giving static adress oder using dhcp), the Host
kernel OOPSes shortly after. See the attached OOPS for
details.
Notes: I have also tried non-SMP and no-acpi with various
combinations, even reducing the memory-size to 2048. I always
get the same result. I have not yet tried '-no-kvm' but could
at your request. The Host-OS and hardware runs other VMs without
any trouble and sees high loads regularily, so I can rule
out any hardware or OS-related troubles with fair confidence.

If you need further information, or want me to test different
configurations, let me know.

As a side note: Thanks for kvm, great job!

Regards,
Thomas Weyergraf


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Thomas Weyergraf                                     kirk@colinet.de
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