Pierre Riteau wrote: > On 5 févr. 2010, at 15:46, Jan Kiszka wrote: > >> Pierre Riteau wrote: >>> On 4 févr. 2010, at 15:34, Pierre Riteau wrote: >>> >>>> Hello, >>>> I'm having trouble running the latest qemu-kvm code on Debian Lenny (Linux >>>> 2.6.26). >>>> qemu-kvm dies with an error like this one: >>>> exception 13 (0) >>>> rax 0000000000000010 rbx 0000000000008c00 rcx 0000000000006ebe rdx >>>> 00000000000c8c00 >>>> rsi 00000000e2010000 rdi 00000000000c0000 rsp 0000000000006eb4 rbp >>>> 00000000e2010000 >>>> r8 0000000000000000 r9 0000000000000000 r10 0000000000000000 r11 >>>> 0000000000000000 >>>> r12 0000000000000000 r13 0000000000000000 r14 0000000000000000 r15 >>>> 0000000000000000 >>>> rip 00000000000fdeb0 rflags 00033002 >>>> cs 0000 (00000000/0000ffff p 1 dpl 3 db 0 s 1 type 3 l 0 g 0 avl 0) >>>> ds 0000 (00000000/0000ffff p 1 dpl 3 db 0 s 1 type 3 l 0 g 0 avl 0) >>>> es 0000 (00000000/0000ffff p 1 dpl 3 db 0 s 1 type 3 l 0 g 0 avl 0) >>>> ss 0000 (00000000/0000ffff p 1 dpl 3 db 0 s 1 type 3 l 0 g 0 avl 0) >>>> fs 0000 (00000000/0000ffff p 1 dpl 3 db 0 s 1 type 3 l 0 g 0 avl 0) >>>> gs 0000 (00000000/0000ffff p 1 dpl 3 db 0 s 1 type 3 l 0 g 0 avl 0) >>>> tr 0000 (feffd000/00002088 p 1 dpl 0 db 0 s 0 type b l 0 g 0 avl 0) >>>> ldt 0000 (00000000/0000ffff p 1 dpl 0 db 0 s 0 type 2 l 0 g 0 avl 0) >>>> gdt f7a20/37 >>>> idt f8aa0/0 >>>> cr0 10 cr2 0 cr3 0 cr4 0 cr8 0 efer 0 >>>> code: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 --> 00 >>>> 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 >>>> 00 00 00 00 >>>> >>>> I think I traced back the issue to the switch from Bochs BIOS to Seabios. >>>> By forcing the usage of Bochs BIOS >>>> 5f08bb45861f54be478b25075b90d2406a0f8bb3 works, while it dies without the >>>> -bios override. >>>> Unfortunately, newer versions don't seem to work with Bochs BIOS. >>>> >>>> Upgrading the host kernel to 2.6.32 (Debian Squeeze) solves the issue. No >>>> problem on Fedora 12 as well. >>> >>> Am I the only one to see this issue? >>> >> The oldest kernels I've running here are 2.6.27. They all run kvm-kmod, >> and they are all happy (mostly). >> >> Are you using the KVM support 2.6.26 provided or are you on some recent >> kvm-kmod? The latter is highly recommended for tons of reasons. >> >> Jan > > > I use the KVM modules provided by the distribution. >
Then it makes some sense to try with kvm-kmod first. I do not know what KVM patches debian people back-ported to their kernel, maybe you run into long-fixed bugs. Jan -- Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT T DE IT 1 Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux -- 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
