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Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: Problem with QEMU on KVM
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To: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Cc: Mulyadi Santosa <mulyadi.santosa@gmail.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

On Tue, 13 Apr 2010, Jan Kiszka wrote:

> Mulyadi Santosa wrote:
>> Hi Jamie...
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 19:07, Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org> wrote:
>>> There are various -no-kvm-XXX options to try:
>>>
>>> -no-kvm-irqchip disable KVM kernel mode PIC/IOAPIC/LAPIC
>>> -no-kvm-pit     disable KVM kernel mode PIT
>>> -no-kvm-pit-reinjection disable KVM kernel mode PIT interrupt reinjection
>>
>> I try to read the source code without too much luck understanding the
>> meaning of the above parameters, especially the reinjection. Please
>> CMIIW, interrupt reinjection is a way to handle lost ticks, right?
>
> Those switches only exist in the qemu-kvm branch. The fact that
> -enable-kvm has some effect for you makes me think that you tried
> upstream KVM support (ie. the one that comes with vanilla QEMU), right?
>

I tried 0.12.3 stable and also qemu git master:
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/qemu.git/log/

> It would be interesting to check if you can reproduce the problem also
> with qemu-kvm(-0.12.3 or git head). As you may also face an issue of the
> kvm kernel bits, it would be furthermore helpful to check with the
> latest kernel from kvm.git or the modules build via kvm-kmod as well.

Can you please post links to the different git repositories, since a lot 
of different repositories exist here (qemu-kvm and kernel).

Thnx.

Ciao,
Gerhard

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