On Tuesday 14 April 2009 06:03:58 Avi Kivity wrote: > Ed Tomlinson wrote: > > Once the above networking stuff is setup I start kvm with the command below > > > > QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=alsa kvm -m 1024 -cdrom /mnt/sdc4/divx/archlinux-2009.02-ftp-i686.iso -boot c -smp 3 -usb -usbdevice tablet -vga std -drive file=arch.img -net nic,macaddr=52:54:00:12:34:23 -net tap,ifname=qtap0,script=no -soundhw all -mem-path /hugepages > > > > which works and the kvm session boots just fine. > > > > Issue 2. When I attempt to ping outside the kvm session the pc (not just the kvm session) hangs. > > Its impossible to kill the kvm session and there are numerious info messages from RCU (tree RCU enabled) > > about stalls. > > > > The rcu messages are likely because a processor has died. > > Do things work if you drop -mem-path? It makes no difference. I did notice that one cpu is peged at 100% though. I'll be trying CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING tonight for another problem - might give interesting results. Ed -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html