Bruno Cornec a écrit : > Hello, > > I hope this kind of message is acceptable for this list. > [I'm not a subscriber yet, please keep my address in cc:] > > I'm the developper of a project (http://www.mondorescue.org) where I > extensively use QEMU for generating all the packages I want to produce > for my application. > > Up to now my home system was an i686 machine and I had 26 different VMs > to generate my sw for 26 different distros. All was fine, and kudos to > the dev team for that. > > I recently changed for a Core2 Duo machine, and began to add 64 bits > virutal machines to the play. > > First point, all my 26 i386 VMs seem to still work fine. > For x86_64 VMs, the results are mixed: > > Fully operational for fedora 6, mandriva 2007.0, 2007.1, rhel 4 and 5. > > My rhel 3 x86_64 VM is unable to reboot correctly. When no special > parameter given to the kernel, it does 'Lost interrupts' after detecting > my hda IDE drive, and finishes by a kernel panic. If I add noapic > nolapic to the boot line, it goes further (without 'Lost interrupts' > mesages) but panics during ethernet card setup (acpi irq messages). > You can try also with -kernel-kqemu or with -no-kqemu. Sometimes, it's more reliable.
Regards, Michel
