From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Anthony Liguori Subject: Re: kvm-84 + virtio Ubuntu Hardy guests Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:02:14 -0500 Message-ID: <49DA89F6.6030203@codemonkey.ws> References: <1239039800.16273.67.camel@blaa> <1239041336.4101.5.camel@x61> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Mark McLoughlin , "kvm@vger.kernel.org" To: kirkland@canonical.com Return-path: Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com ([209.85.198.225]:32097 "EHLO rv-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753662AbZDFXCX (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Apr 2009 19:02:23 -0400 Received: by rv-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id f9so2426314rvb.1 for ; Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:02:21 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1239041336.4101.5.camel@x61> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >