Re: 2.6.23-rc1, KVM-AMD problem

[Alistair John Strachan <alistair@devzero.co.uk>]

On Sunday 29 July 2007 14:47:57 you wrote:
> Alistair John Strachan wrote:
> > On Sunday 29 July 2007 12:34:28 you wrote:
> > [snip]
> >
> >>> Doesn't help, I still get the same crashes. I tried 2.6.22 again and
> >>> it's rock solid by comparison.
> >>
> >> Do you mean, kvm-33 on top of 2.6.22, or the kvm modules from 2.6.22?
> >> Please describe your configuration *exactly*.
> >
> > I'm using the kvm-33 *userspace* package (based on Debian's kvm-28
> > packaging) and 2.6.23-rc1's KVM modules. I patched 2.6.23-rc1 with the
> > patch you provided in your last email. So I'm not using -git HEAD.
> >
> > Maybe there's been additional necessary fixes to -git requiring me to
> > update to HEAD? That wasn't clear from your last email.
>
> No,  that patch is the only potential fix post -rc1.  There are a few
> other fixes there, but they are intended to avoid guest crashes, not
> host crashes.
>
> What guest are you running?  Maybe I can reproduce it here.

Right now, Windows XP. I'm pretty sure Linux (well, Debian Etch) works fine. I 
could only get Windows to install with -no-acpi, but I run it with the 
following (if this is at all useful):

kvm -no-acpi -m 256 -hda $IMAGE -net nic -net tap,script=/etc/kvm/kvm-ifup

Basically, the installer seems to work fine, but Windows seemed to have 
problems after installing post-SP2 updates. Maybe that's why not everybody is 
seeing it yet.

-- 
Cheers,
Alistair.

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