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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
To: kirkland@canonical.com
Cc: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>,
	"kvm@vger.kernel.org" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: kvm-84 + virtio Ubuntu Hardy guests
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:02:14 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49DA89F6.6030203@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1239041336.4101.5.camel@x61>

Dustin Kirkland wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 18:43 +0100, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
>   
>> The problem here is that 2.6.24/5 vintage guests are saying they
>> support
>> something they don't. See this for further details:
>>
>> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2009-01/msg00574.html
>>     
>
> Agreed, understood.  And those kernels should be patched.
>
> However, it's a bit of a chicken/egg problem...  One can't even boot
> those guests (with virtio) to update the kernel, as it panics on boot
> (without the kvm hack).
>   

There's now a fix for this in QEMU stable.  It'll make it's way to 
kvm-userspace once Avi merges.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori
> :-Dustin
>
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      reply	other threads:[~2009-04-06 23:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-01  0:28 kvm-84 + virtio Ubuntu Hardy guests Dustin Kirkland
2009-04-06 16:55 ` Dustin Kirkland
2009-04-06 17:43   ` Mark McLoughlin
2009-04-06 18:08     ` Dustin Kirkland
2009-04-06 23:02       ` Anthony Liguori [this message]

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