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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
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Daniel Dickinson wrote:
> Hello,
> 	
> 	I have been experiencing VM hangs for some time (anything after
> 0.8.2 on debian) with a Windows 98 SE guest (where I can can
>   

So this hang happens with current SVN?

> consistently hang it by a certain part of the install procedure) as
> well as various Ubuntu guests (where it will hang but is 'just random').
>
> From Debian bug #474386, quoting myself
>
> I have done the bisect and narrowed it down to three commits.  Two of
> the commits do not compile so could be the problem and the third is the
> first bad commit that does compile.  
>
> The last good revision is 2072 (git
> d62ca2669be6d6af2c0cbda47abd7e51548060bf)
>
> The first known bad commit is 2075 (git
> 83f640910acd7cd13ff8a603f29c46033c4fb00)
>   

These commits are ancient.  The code has changed dramatically.  Please 
try the latest SVN.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori