* Lukas Kolbe <l-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [2009-03-24 16:04]: > Am Dienstag, den 24.03.2009, 15:40 -0500 schrieb Ryan Harper: > > Hi Ryan, > > > > > Doesn't he say that it did work for him with kvm-72, but does not with > > > > kvm-84? > > > > > > Exactly that :) > > > kvm-72 works like a charm, with the noted exception that it crashes > > > every now and than on our system (during heavy load), which was the > > > reason we tried 084 in the first place. > > > > running kvm-84 with -m 8192 -- passes memtest on ubuntu 8.10 x86_64 > > server cd. Maybe wrong bios? From kvm-84 make install, I have: > > > > % md5sum /usr/local/share/qemu/bios.bin > > 470d43e4838be608a2447b23a9f83d90 /usr/local/share/qemu/bios.bin > > Hm, ours is > > % md5sum /usr/share/kvm/bios.bin > a1dbfc18f5f5656da939cc8c243741da /usr/share/kvm/bios.bin > > I'll try to circumvent debian and install kvm-84 from the vanilla > sources to see wether it makes a difference, in the meantime I'll open a > bug report with debian. you can test kvm-84 bios with: % cd kvm-84/qemu % ./x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64 -L pc-bios <all your other options> That will force qemu to look in the kvm-84 pc-bios dir for bios instead of /usr/local/share/qemu if *that* works, then you didn't make install kvm-84, and running with mismatched bios bins is sure way screw things up. -- Ryan Harper Software Engineer; Linux Technology Center IBM Corp., Austin, Tx ryanh@xxxxxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
