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

[Arthur Enright <aenright@voidnet.us>]

Hey guys,

I was able to boot the instance with Knopix and add the append="ide=nodma" line
which got me up and running but the instance seems to lock up frequently.  I'm
wondering if there are some kvm tweaks I can make to stabilize the system.  Here
is what my qemu-kvm options look like:

/usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -S -M rhel5.4.0 -cpu qemu32 -m 256 -smp \
1,sockets=1,cores=1,threads=1 -name RHL6 -uuid \
0be67ae0-2544-a356-05c0-1e3550681760 -monitor \
unix:/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/RHL6.monitor,server,nowait \
-no-kvm-pit-reinjection -no-acpi -boot c -drive \
file=/var/lib/libvirt/images/vm_lun_1 \
rhl6.img,if=ide,bus=0,unit=0,boot=on,format=raw -drive \
file=/media/redhat-.2- \
i386.iso,if=ide,media=cdrom,bus=1,unit=0, \
readonly=on,format=raw -net nic,macaddr=54:52:00:48:07:00, \
vlan=0,model=ne2k_pci -net tap,fd=23,vlan=0 -serial none \
-parallel none -usb -vnc 127.0.0.1:2 -k en-us \
-vga cirrus -balloon virtio

Thanks again!
-Arthur