On 5 févr. 2010, at 15:46, Jan Kiszka wrote: > Pierre Riteau wrote: >> On 4 févr. 2010, at 15:34, Pierre Riteau wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> I'm having trouble running the latest qemu-kvm code on Debian Lenny (Linux 2.6.26). >>> qemu-kvm dies with an error like this one: >>> exception 13 (0) >>> rax 0000000000000010 rbx 0000000000008c00 rcx 0000000000006ebe rdx 00000000000c8c00 >>> rsi 00000000e2010000 rdi 00000000000c0000 rsp 0000000000006eb4 rbp 00000000e2010000 >>> r8 0000000000000000 r9 0000000000000000 r10 0000000000000000 r11 0000000000000000 >>> r12 0000000000000000 r13 0000000000000000 r14 0000000000000000 r15 0000000000000000 >>> rip 00000000000fdeb0 rflags 00033002 >>> cs 0000 (00000000/0000ffff p 1 dpl 3 db 0 s 1 type 3 l 0 g 0 avl 0) >>> ds 0000 (00000000/0000ffff p 1 dpl 3 db 0 s 1 type 3 l 0 g 0 avl 0) >>> es 0000 (00000000/0000ffff p 1 dpl 3 db 0 s 1 type 3 l 0 g 0 avl 0) >>> ss 0000 (00000000/0000ffff p 1 dpl 3 db 0 s 1 type 3 l 0 g 0 avl 0) >>> fs 0000 (00000000/0000ffff p 1 dpl 3 db 0 s 1 type 3 l 0 g 0 avl 0) >>> gs 0000 (00000000/0000ffff p 1 dpl 3 db 0 s 1 type 3 l 0 g 0 avl 0) >>> tr 0000 (feffd000/00002088 p 1 dpl 0 db 0 s 0 type b l 0 g 0 avl 0) >>> ldt 0000 (00000000/0000ffff p 1 dpl 0 db 0 s 0 type 2 l 0 g 0 avl 0) >>> gdt f7a20/37 >>> idt f8aa0/0 >>> cr0 10 cr2 0 cr3 0 cr4 0 cr8 0 efer 0 >>> code: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 --> 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 >>> >>> I think I traced back the issue to the switch from Bochs BIOS to Seabios. By forcing the usage of Bochs BIOS 5f08bb45861f54be478b25075b90d2406a0f8bb3 works, while it dies without the -bios override. >>> Unfortunately, newer versions don't seem to work with Bochs BIOS. >>> >>> Upgrading the host kernel to 2.6.32 (Debian Squeeze) solves the issue. No problem on Fedora 12 as well. >> >> >> Am I the only one to see this issue? >> > > The oldest kernels I've running here are 2.6.27. They all run kvm-kmod, > and they are all happy (mostly). > > Are you using the KVM support 2.6.26 provided or are you on some recent > kvm-kmod? The latter is highly recommended for tons of reasons. > > Jan I use the KVM modules provided by the distribution. -- Pierre Riteau -- PhD student, Myriads team, IRISA, Rennes, France http://perso.univ-rennes1.fr/pierre.riteau/ -- 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