Re: Has anyone tried to run Linux 2.2 under KVM?

[Arthur Enright <aenright@voidnet.us>]

Richard W.M. Jones <rjones <at> redhat.com> writes:

> 
> On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 02:16:34PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
> > Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> >> I've been trying out RHL6.2 [sic] on KVM 70.  This has an ancient
> >> 2.2.14 kernel and generally dates from 1999/2000.  However it does run
> >> nicely in 16 MB of RAM which makes it useful for me because I want to
> >> see what happens when we run 100s of KVM instances 
> >
> > Can you post a pointer to an iso image somewhere?
> 
> I got it from this site, although it's often a little overloaded so
> best to use 'wget' to grab the ISO.
> 
> http://archive.download.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/6.2/en/iso/i386/
> 
> Rich.
> 


I'm glad to have found this thread.  I was able to install RHL 6.2 using KVM but
I have a quick question.  I'm getting the interrupt errors mentioned at the
beginning of the thread during boot time.  I know I can append ide=nodma and
re-install grub once the instance is up, but it seems to be taking a ridiculous
amount of time to boot to a point where I can do this.

Is there a way to pass a kernel boot time option with LILO or do I just have to
wait until the box can come up?

I have tried:
linux ide=nodma
linux append="ide=nodma"

at boot but no luck.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,
-Art