From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: paolo pedaletti Subject: HowTo help... Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 16:09:54 +0100 Message-ID: <4970A342.4050908@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: kvm@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from mailgw1.si.unimib.it ([149.132.2.29]:51280 "EHLO mailgw1.si.unimib.it" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759713AbZAPPJ5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Jan 2009 10:09:57 -0500 Received: from mailgw1.si.unimib.it (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id 7244F1980F1 for ; Fri, 16 Jan 2009 16:09:55 +0100 (CET) Received: from pablo.unimib.it (pablo2.frend.unimib.it [149.132.3.53]) by mailgw1.si.unimib.it (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F9C31980A6 for ; Fri, 16 Jan 2009 16:09:55 +0100 (CET) Received: from [149.132.16.135] (account paolo.pedaletti@unimib.it HELO [10.109.1.194]) by pablo2.pablo.unimib.it (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.2.6) with ESMTPSA id 15164067 for kvm@vger.kernel.org; Fri, 16 Jan 2009 16:09:55 +0100 Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Ciao, this mail just to say that it would be useful to have guide/howto that explain some basic/standard action to help to debug failure on KVM. The idea is the following: most of the KVM users are just "users" (ok, maybe system administrator, but) not kernel hacker or programmer. like most of the OpenOffice.org users. I contribute to OpenOffice.org not coding but testing every new version with some basic/trivial test. So instead saying "it doesn't work" it would be much more useful to say: it doesn't work, AND as the howto-help-kvm say, the result of the following actions are: (for example) 0) kvm command line is: ....... 1) with -no-kvm ......... 2) kvm_stat says ... 3) gdb says... 4) the filesystem is {qcow2|row|lvm2|...} 5) host computer is ... 6) guest computer is ... 7) ... 8) . and all the test that a end-user (usually a sysadmin, a skilled person but not a kernel hacker) con do to reproduce/explain/mitigate the problem. (by the way, is there an explanation of "Weekly KVM Testing Report" tests?) just my thought thank you. ciao -- Paolo Pedaletti