From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EEwec-000826-N0 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 12 Sep 2005 18:19:59 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EEweU-0007wx-IH for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 12 Sep 2005 18:19:57 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EEweQ-0007pl-5x for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 12 Sep 2005 18:19:46 -0400 Received: from [65.74.133.11] (helo=mail.codesourcery.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA:24) (Exim 4.34) id 1EEwZK-0001J8-AG for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 12 Sep 2005 18:14:30 -0400 From: Paul Brook Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] kqemu in 0.7.2 no longer boots Xen Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 23:14:25 +0100 References: <4325F536.5010405@us.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <4325F536.5010405@us.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200509122314.26393.paul@codesourcery.com> Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org On Monday 12 September 2005 22:37, Anthony Liguori wrote: > Admittedly this is probably not a standard usage, but I'm using qemu for > Xen development (Xen is an Open Source hypervisor). It works quite well > so far. > > 0.7.2 seems to have broken support for kqemu. Linux freezes during boot > (running in ring 1 under Xen) right before launching the INIT process. > Passing -no-kqemu or reverting to 0.7.1 makes the problem go away. > > Without knowing the differences in kqemu between versions, it's hard to > narrow down any further. I looked at the diffs for qemu though and did > not see anything obvious. kqemu is a proprierary module only available as a binary object. You have approximately zero chance of finding or fixing bugs in it. Paul