Re: Live Migration of 32-bit Linux guest broken since 2.6.35-rc2

Peter Lieven
2010-06-08T13:28:34Z

Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 06/08/2010 03:49 PM, Peter Lieven wrote:
>>>
>>> And finally, perhaps you have NX disabled in the bios of one of the
>>> machines?
>>>
>>> What does 'dmesg | grep NX' show on both hosts?
>>>
>>
>> nx was disabled on one of the nodes.
>
> That explains the problem.
>
>> i will retry the case later today and send info register output.
>> what is the recommended value for nx (and why)?
>
> Enabled (so you get no-execute memory protection).
do you have a guideline which flags should be identical to ensure proper
live migration?
i would like to do an automatic compare before life migration to avoid
crashes.

thanks
peter

>
>> and why was it working with 2.6.34 and is not with 2.6.35-rc2?
>
> We fixed a different bug. But you shouldn't live migrate from a
> machine with nx to a machine without nx, unless you use -cpu ...,-nx
> on both nodes.
>

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