Thanks, Now, it seams that I have a problem with the kvm, whenever I tried to create a new virtual machine and the kvm module is loaded I got kernel panic in the virtual machine. The panic: " ... Code: 0f 30 b8 76 00 13 00 89 d9 0f 30 48 c7 c6 17 41 2a 80 89 fa RIP [<ffffffff8007d43d>] setup_k7_watchdog+0x2d/0x7a RSP <ffff81003ffb7e50> <0>Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception ... " (If I remove the kvm module it works) The kvm version: kvm-83-105.el5_4.13 The KVM did not arrived with the RH5.4 distribution, I installed it manually. >From the package: kvm-83-105.el5_4.13.x86_64.rpm Do I need specific version of the kvm with that qemu ? Thanks again, Erez -----Original Message----- From: Avi Kivity [mailto:avi@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Sunday, December 27, 2009 1:10 PM To: Erez Shitrit Cc: kvm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: unable to assign devices with VT-d in KVM On 12/27/2009 12:07 PM, Erez Shitrit wrote: > Hi, > I am KVM newbie, trying to run and use the KVM. > When I tried to assign pci device to new virtual machine I got the > next > error: > > /usr/local/bin/qemu-system-x86_64: invalid option -- '-pcidevice' > > I followed the instructions in the > http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/How_to_assign_devices_with_VT-d_in_KVM > page, > I am using RH5_4 with the new kernel for rh5.5: 2.6.18-prep > (2.6.18.197) I run the next command > /usr/local/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -m 512 -boot c -net none -hda > /sdb5/images/test2.img -pcidevice host=04:00.0 > > And I got > > /usr/local/bin/qemu-system-x86_64: invalid option -- '-pcidevice' > > > The qemu-system-x86_64 version is: > QEMU PC emulator version 0.11.91, Copyright (c) 2003-2008 Fabrice > Bellard > > What I missed? > > You're running the upstream qemu, which doesn't support device assignment. Download qemu-kvm-0.12.1.1 from http://linux-kvm.org. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function -- 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