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Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] kvm-81 release
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 09:49:29 -0800
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Farkas Levente wrote:
> Avi Kivity wrote:
>   
>> This release fixes a bunch of display regressions, and restores
>> userspace/kernel compatibility with older kernel modules.  There are a
>> few other goodies hidden in there, for example scsi is now enabled on
>>     
>>> 4G guests.
>>>       
>
> the best news in the last 10-20 kmv release we finally able to run all
> of our guests with kvm-81 (even mandrake-10:-)))
>
> the only problem that fedora-9's older kernel can not boot, but i boot
> with the latest fedora-9 kernel, upgrade to fedora-10 hand in graphical
> mode, crash in text mode and preupgrade hang with 100% cpu) so we can
> use only f-9.
> i hope it'll be easier to fix this fedora kernel's problem the the
> mandrake one.
>
> our setup:
> - host:
>   - Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600  @ 2.40GHz
>   - Intel S3000AHV
>   - 8GB RAM
>   - CentOS-5.2
>   - kernel-2.6.18-92.1.18.el5 x86_64 64bit
> - guest-1:
>   - CentOS-5.2 - 4 vcpu
>   - kernel-2.6.18-92.1.18.el5 i386 32bit
> - guest-2:
>   - CentOS-5.2 - 4 vcpu
>   - kernel-2.6.18-92.1.18.el5 x86_64 64bit
> - guest-3:
>   - Mandrake-9 - 1 vcpu
>   - kernel-2.4.19.16mdk-1-1mdk 32bit
> - guest-4:
>   - Mandrake-10 - 1 vcpu
>   - kernel-2.6.14.2-p4-smp 32bit
> - guest-5:
>   - Windows XP Professional 32bit - 2 vcpu
> - guest-7:
>   - Fedora-9 - 4 vcpu
>   - kernel-2.6.27.5-37.fc9.i686
>
>   
Solaris 10 guest does not boot on CentOS 5.2. The boot screen keeps 
circling.