From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bryon Roche Subject: Re: Running KVM on a Laptop Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 15:16:33 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <8CB5B91ADEF0853-D1C-27CD@webmail-md20.sysops.aol.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit To: kvm@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:34918 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750848AbZBPPQm (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Feb 2009 10:16:42 -0500 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LZ5D8-0003jl-AC for kvm@vger.kernel.org; Mon, 16 Feb 2009 15:16:42 +0000 Received: from p548a783d.dip.t-dialin.net ([84.138.120.61]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 16 Feb 2009 15:16:42 +0000 Received: from kain by p548a783d.dip.t-dialin.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 16 Feb 2009 15:16:42 +0000 Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, 13 Feb 2009 12:56:56 +1100, Ross McKay wrote: > NB: don't use recent sources (post v80) if you want to run compressed > qcow2 images, as you'll only get corruption. I was told on this list > that QEMU has resolved the problem but that the patch hasn't been ported > across to the KVM branch yet. As such, get a laptop with a *big* hard > drive if you plan to run the latest versions. -- If you're playing with kvm-git, you should be able to pull these fixes in via cherry picking 16f197e29c19a4366a1d2ba3dcd0b4b8b0f86ce6, then 86030aade7ae09f4cedfb13973e37ba30f3db073. /B