On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 09:27 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote: > On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 13:56 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote: > > I'm getting lots of bug reports about installing kvm and then suspend > > breaking. Some background: when the fedora package kvm is installed, > > then the kvm and kvm_xxx modules get auto loaded at boot. To get the > > machine to suspend again, the modules have to be rmmod'd on suspend and > > then modprobe'd on resume. > > > > We can automate the rmmodding and modprobeing adding a simple script in > > pm-utils (/etc/pm/sleep.d/) on package install, but to avoid just > > bodging the issue I wanted to ask you guys first. > > Also could go into the kvm package instead.
Ahh yes, that's what I meant, sorry if I was unclear. > > * Is it safe to rmmod kvm and kvm_x before suspend? > > Relatively. Although I vaguely remember having it cause an interesting > problem once or twice, but not reproducibly enough to actually figure > out what was going on. Okay, cool. > > * Is there any work on adding suspend and resume hooks into the kvm > > driver to support suspend? > > The bigger thing is there's a need to add some hooks so that kvm can do > things at the right point in the suspend sequence. Avi has patches, but > they missed the .22 merge window. I need to sit down (maybe today) and > refresh the Fedora kvm patch; I was thinking of pushing those changes in > at the same time so that this can go away. And if that pans out for a > little bit in rawhide, it could easily go out as an F7 update. Superb. When you push the new patch into rawhide, yell, and I'll get an army of testers to try and break suspend in new, exotic ways. :-) Thanks for the super-quick response. Richard ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ kvm-devel mailing list kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel
