Andrzej, the guest Linux system reported some AMD CPU type (can't remember which one) which is not in my system. Now when the guest Linux starts is correctly reports: CPU 0 AMD X2 4200+ ....
Regards, Werner andrzej zaborowski wrote: > Hi, > > On 18/04/07, Werner Dittmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Andrzej, >> >> just another remark: after setting the kernel parameter to "notsc" >> the kernel now detects the CPU correctly. Without this setting the >> CPU detetion was wrong (displays the wrong CPU type, frequency, etc). >> Are there any know side-effects if notsc (no time stamp counter) is >> set? > > I don't know what clocksource is chosen with "notsc", it may be > forgettably slower one (but not necessarily). What do you mean by > wrong CPU? > > Apparently this is the same SMP issue I described in > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2007-03/msg00652.html so > it's not x86_64 related. If you apply the patch from that post, you > can skip "notsc". > > Regards, > Andrzej > > >