From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=38595 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OEMfi-0004Ip-Kp for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 18 May 2010 09:17:23 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OEMff-00043s-P2 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 18 May 2010 09:17:21 -0400 Received: from zion.dlh.net ([91.198.192.1]:35312 helo=mail.dlh.net) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OEMfc-00043N-U8 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 18 May 2010 09:17:19 -0400 Message-ID: <4BF29359.5040209@dlh.net> Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 15:17:13 +0200 From: Peter Lieven MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Suggested Parameters for SLES 10 64-bit References: <4BF25A7A.1010305@dlh.net> <5F70B456-4DC8-4A05-A872-00259D6C9374@suse.de> <4BF2647B.4090503@dlh.net> <17B889A5-5DC4-4651-8650-118E984DF711@suse.de> <4BF26805.8060008@dlh.net> <29239B8B-DFAB-485E-966B-D1EEDC0292D4@suse.de> <4BF27370.5000800@dlh.net> <676B44BA-E51E-4CBE-AC53-773F2AAAC0BB@suse.de> <4BF27546.8050808@dlh.net> <2A9FC14A-EDF8-4369-81BD-5232A4C6F647@suse.de> <4BF28152.9040100@dlh.net> <4BF28A51.1040603@suse.de> <4BF28DEA.5050402@dlh.net> <4BF28EE5.5070505@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <4BF28EE5.5070505@suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Alexander Graf Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org Alexander Graf wrote: > Peter Lieven wrote: > >> we are running on intel xeons here: >> > > That might be the reason. Does it break when passing -no-kvm? > > >> processor : 0 >> vendor_id : GenuineIntel >> cpu family : 6 >> model : 26 >> model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU L5530 @ 2.40GHz >> stepping : 5 >> cpu MHz : 2394.403 >> cache size : 8192 KB >> physical id : 1 >> siblings : 4 >> core id : 0 >> cpu cores : 4 >> apicid : 16 >> initial apicid : 16 >> fpu : yes >> fpu_exception : yes >> cpuid level : 11 >> wp : yes >> flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge >> mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe >> syscall rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good >> xtopology tsc_reliable nonstop_tsc pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est >> tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm dca sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt lahf_lm tpr_shadow >> vnmi flexpriority ept vpid >> bogomips : 4788.80 >> clflush size : 64 >> cache_alignment : 64 >> address sizes : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual >> power management: >> >> kvm-kmod is 2.6.32.7 >> ... >> >> which commandline parameters do you supply to qemu-kvm? >> > > None :) > It seems to stop working if i supply -no-kvm-irqchip. Can you try to reproduce this? We introduced that parameter because we encountered some problems with the e1000 kernel driver stopped to work in some guests after live migration with a "nobody cared about interupt" (i don't know the exact error anymore). supplying -no-kvm-irqchip made live migration of these guests possible... Sounds that familiar to someone? Peter > >> which kernel parameters do you use for the sles 10 guest? >> > > Just the default. I took the SP1 DVD, installed it and booted it up. All > is fine: > > $ ./x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64 -snapshot > /media/studio/images/SUSE/sles10/sles10sp1.x86_64.raw -vnc :10 > > Running on Intel might be the culprit though. I'll try and check if > booting the image on an Intel box works. > > > Alex > > >