It appears to be a problem with the kernel proper (ie., not a Red Hat patch). I hit the soft lockup problem with kvm-48 and the 2.6.18.4 kernel which is the base for RHEL5. That suggests a delivery between 2.6.18.4 (November 2006) and 2.6.23.1 fixed it.
david Avi Kivity wrote: > david ahern wrote: >> The issue appears to be with the RHEL5 kernel (host OS is rhel5). I tried >> your suggestions below -- no effect; still hit the softlockup. >> >> I then moved the host to the 2.6.23.1 kernel but with the kvm-48 code base. >> Surprisingly, I had no issues starting my guest with '-smp 4'. >> >> > > Well, I regularly start up 4-way Linux guests on 2.6.bleeding.edge. I'd > like to clear that problem for users on older kernels, though. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ kvm-devel mailing list kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel
