When using QEMU it recommends to setup timer to 1000Hz for better guest system response. So, I followed the recommendation and my system is stable, though I use masked kernel(2.6.21-gentoo-r3). Oh,I forgot - my box is driven by AMD Athlon X2 4400+
-- best regards, Aleksey V. Kunitskiy my public GPG/PGP key: http://www.alexey-kv.org.ua/pubkey.asc
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