All This is my first post to the list but this seems to be the only place I can get this problem to be looked at by hopefully the correct people: I've bounced it around in #kvm on freenode and we've all agreed its a development issue / bug that needs looking at.
Anyway, without further ado: my machine is a Core 2 Due Quad Core based box running Debian Lenny and a 2.6.27 kernel as the host OS. I am using KVM-82 right now and track all current releases of the KVM code. The issue I have run into seems to be very specific to the hardware setup I have and the fact that I'm running this version of Windows under virtualization. I have been trying for some time to get Git to work under this OS and for one reason or another I was trying the cygwin based install. Problems started appearing as soon as I install cygwin, and during the installation process even: various post-install config scripts crash and I get the usual windows JIT debugger window popping up etc. Upon further investigation I have tracked the problem down to a problem with Cygwin bash's builtin "test" implementation ( the [] syntax in shell scripting ). I can cause the crash by simply invoking this syntax from a command line. This problem has been noted before and has been posted about elsewhere: first on the cygwin list, and then after on the Xen list. Everyone seems to agree that based on more extensive testing from other people that this is being caused by something in the virtualzation stack. Two messages of note are: http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2008-01/msg00582.html http://www.nabble.com/Xen-3.2.1---Win-2003-2008-Server-64-bit-guests:-cygwin-bash-builtin-%22test%22-crashes-td19001336.html I've spent a long time trying to track this down: I've tried various versions of KVM and have tried playing around with windows lots as well. No luck. I'm lost on this but it seems to me that this just should not happen and if there is a bug in the way Xen and KVM treat things then it needs fixing...hence the post. If someone wants to try and squash / identify this bug further I'm availible as a tester: I am a c++ developer by day but I don't know the KVM code or how you go about debugging it. If someone can prime me in that direction perhaps I could look at it as well. Anyway, anything I can do to help and I will. Thanks in advance. -- Jamie Kirkpatrick 07818 422311 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
