Hi all: I'm Alec Joseph Rivera, from the Philippines and new on this list. Anyway, I'm trying to run Lotus Foundations on kvm and it just hangs on bootup. It stops right after: Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok. There's no more output after that. My invocation line is: $ qemu-kvm -cpu host -m 1G -cdrom lfs.iso Adding -no-acpi allows the bootup to progress for a little bit then hangs again with no further error messages after: PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xffe77, last bus=0 PCI: Using configuration type 1 I tried adding kernel parameters like noapic, nolapic and pci=xxx but to no avail. Adding -no-kvm allows somewhat normal operations but I/O breakdowns after awhile. Kernel logs say something about dma timer expiry. nolapic_timer on the kernel commandline seems to fix it. But no one likes to settle with -no-kvm right :-) I tried -no-kvm-irqchip and -no-kvm-pit separately, then together, but they also don't have any effect. Still hangs after the WP bit checking part. I made some digging and found out that Foundations is actually based on SLES 10 and uses a rather old 2.6.16 kernel. On kvm's changelog, kvm-47 already had added support for these kernels. Might this be a regression? My host kernel is 2.6.35 and qemu-kvm is 0.12.5. modinfo kvm gives nothing about the kvm version though.. Anyone got some suggestions I could try? BTW, kernel rebuilding is not an option on Foundations :-( Thanks. Cheese! Agi -- --- Follow me: http://twitter.com/agirivera Invite as a friend: http://www.facebook.com/agirivera -- 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
