From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Farkas Levente Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] kvm-83 release Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:54:45 +0100 Message-ID: <496CB945.1080400@lfarkas.org> References: <496C9CE0.2080103@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: KVM list To: Avi Kivity Return-path: Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.152]:45261 "EHLO fg-out-1718.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751424AbZAMPy5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jan 2009 10:54:57 -0500 Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 19so61522fgg.17 for ; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 07:54:55 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <496C9CE0.2080103@redhat.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Avi Kivity wrote: > The biggest change this time around is support for the AMD IOMMU for > device assignment. As it requires extensive core kernel support, it is > only available on Linux 2.6.29rc1 or higher hosts. status report on rhel/centos-5.2 host: - fedora-9 latest kernel now boot again - fedora-10 installer stop at "waiting for hardware..." so it's currently not able to upgrade fedora-9 guest neither from cdrom nor form preupgrade (ie hard disk). and these dozens of warning still comes during compilation on rhel/centos 5.2: ----------------------------------------- In file included from /home/robot/rpm/BUILD/kvm-83/kernel/include/asm/kvm_host.h:65, from /home/robot/rpm/BUILD/kvm-83/kernel/include/linux/kvm_host.h:67, from /home/robot/rpm/BUILD/kvm-83/kernel/x86/lapic.c:60: /home/robot/rpm/BUILD/kvm-83/kernel/include-compat/asm/msr-index.h:30:1: warning: "MSR_IA32_PERFCTR0" redefined In file included from include/asm/processor.h:16, from /home/robot/rpm/BUILD/kvm-83/kernel/include/asm/kvm_para.h:89, from /home/robot/rpm/BUILD/kvm-83/kernel/include/linux/kvm_para.h:63, from /home/robot/rpm/BUILD/kvm-83/kernel/x86/../external-module-compat-comm.h:14, from /home/robot/rpm/BUILD/kvm-83/kernel/x86/external-module-compat.h:9, from :1: include/asm/msr.h:190:1: warning: this is the location of the previous definition In file included from /home/robot/rpm/BUILD/kvm-83/kernel/include/asm/kvm_host.h:65, from /home/robot/rpm/BUILD/kvm-83/kernel/include/linux/kvm_host.h:67, from /home/robot/rpm/BUILD/kvm-83/kernel/x86/lapic.c:60: /home/robot/rpm/BUILD/kvm-83/kernel/include-compat/asm/msr-index.h:31:1: warning: "MSR_IA32_PERFCTR1" redefined In file included from include/asm/processor.h:16, from /home/robot/rpm/BUILD/kvm-83/kernel/include/asm/kvm_para.h:89, from /home/robot/rpm/BUILD/kvm-83/kernel/include/linux/kvm_para.h:63, from /home/robot/rpm/BUILD/kvm-83/kernel/x86/../external-module-compat-comm.h:14, from /home/robot/rpm/BUILD/kvm-83/kernel/x86/external-module-compat.h:9, from :1: ----------------------------------------- -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"