On 01.07.2009, at 11:05, Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 07/01/2009 08:57 AM, Duck wrote:
I'm on 32-bit Linux, kernel 2.6.27.7-smp. When I moved from kvm-83
to kvm-87 plus kvm-kmod-devel-87, my Linux host VMs ran fine. But
my XP0 host simply ran too slowly to be useable at all, and my
Windows 7 host wouldn't boot -- just crashed and restarted early in
the boot process.
Are you sure kvm was loaded? "too slowly" often means qemu is
emulating.
Check 'info kvm' in the monitor.
Seeing the module version "-devel-87" I tried kvm-87 with the old
kvm-83 kernel module (I have no idea whether this is supposed to
work) and my XP image worked better, but a task such as opening
Device Manager (to see if any hardware has changed) took several
_minutes_ (it should take a second or so)) and still didn't work
correctly.
Kvm-87 with the -83 kernel module also persuaded Windows 7 to boot,
to report "new devices installed', and thereafter to work with
kvm-87 plus kvm-kmod-devel-87. (Don't you love Windows's driver
inflexibility :-)
So I presume that this is all down to virtual hardware changes
since -83.
Before I rebuild my tired old XP0 image, however, and adopt kvm-87
for evermore, I just want to know if it's _supposed_ to work on 32-
bit (Avi's post about the broken 32-bit compile of -87 due to no 32-
bit test build system seemed to imply that 32-bit hosts are
considered passe).
Or should I stick with the older kvm until I upgrade my OS to 64-bit?
kvm is supported on 32-bit hosts. Unfortunately since moving to kvm-
autotest I no longer test on 32-bit, I'll try to improve the
situation there.
If someone has spare cycles and can run kvm-autotest on their
hardware, that would improve kvm quality measurably.
Can't you just run the tests in a 32 bit VM? :)
Alex
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