Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756068AbZG0LLo (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Jul 2009 07:11:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756032AbZG0LLn (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Jul 2009 07:11:43 -0400 Received: from smtp-out3.blueyonder.co.uk ([195.188.213.6]:49347 "EHLO smtp-out3.blueyonder.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755911AbZG0LLn (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Jul 2009 07:11:43 -0400 Message-ID: <4A6D8B66.9030909@blueyonder.co.uk> Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 12:11:34 +0100 From: Sid Boyce Reply-To: g3vbv@blueyonder.co.uk Organization: blueyonder.co.uk User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-GB; rv:1.9.1.1) Gecko/20090715 SUSE/3.0b3-1.1 Thunderbird/3.0b3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alexander Graf CC: Avi Kivity , LKML Mailing List , Sid Boyce , KVM list Subject: Re: OpenSolaris boot failure with KVM and VirtualBox References: <4A5ED714.7010304@blueyonder.co.uk> <4A6C80C3.8090007@redhat.com> <4A6C9D1F.3090404@blueyonder.co.uk> <4A6C9DE6.8080002@redhat.com> <4A6CD1AD.6090009@blueyonder.co.uk> <8CF02BC9-C112-422B-A9D7-9B391F6EA694@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <8CF02BC9-C112-422B-A9D7-9B391F6EA694@suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2004 Lines: 67 On 27/07/09 06:36, Alexander Graf wrote: > > On 26.07.2009, at 23:59, Sid Boyce wrote: > >> On 26/07/09 19:18, Avi Kivity wrote: >>> On 07/26/2009 09:14 PM, Sid Boyce wrote: >>>> >>>>> Is this a regression from previous kernel versions? What userspace >>>>> are >>>>> you using? >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> Currently running 2.6.31-rc4 with the original kqemu-1.4.0pre1 on >>>> openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 4 and it boots OK - a 200G disk image used. >>>> qemu-system-x86_64 -cdrom /ISO/osol-0906-ai-x86.iso -boot d >>>> /osol0906.qcow2 -smp 4 -m 500M& >>>> >>> >>> Wait, are you using kqemu or kvm? >>> >> >> # l /dev/kvm >> crw-rw----+ 1 root root 10, 232 2009-07-24 20:26 /dev/kvm >> # lsmod|grep kvm >> kvm_amd 41908 0 >> kvm 180488 1 kvm_amd >> >> From long ago I read that kvm needed kqemu, so I have always built the >> module, but I see here it's not used. >> lsmod|grep qemu >> kqemu 173496 0 >> >> # rpm -qf /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 >> qemu-0.10.1-2.21 > > You're not using KVM. "Qemu" is the non-KVM version. > > Maybe uli activated the preliminary kvm support in there, but if you > want the real deal, install the "kvm" package and use /usr/bin/qemu-kvm. > > Alex > > > Thanks, I shall check that out, no mention of x86_64, but I shall have a look at the stuff below. >From Documentation/ia64/kvm.txt 1. Get the kvm source from git.kernel.org. Userspace source: git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm-userspace.git Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist, Cricket Coach Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/