On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 08:11:26PM +0100, Jan Kiszka wrote: > On 2011-02-27 20:03, Alon Levy wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 01:29:01PM +0100, Jan Kiszka wrote: > >> On 2011-02-26 12:43, xming wrote: > >>> When trying to start X (and it loads qxl driver) the kvm process just > >>> crashes. > > > > This is fixed by Gerd's attached patch (taken from rhel repository, don't > > know > > why it wasn't pushed to qemu-kvm upstream). I'll send it to kvm list as > > well (separate email). > > Patch looks OK on first glance, but the changelog is misleading: This > was broken for _both_ trees, but upstream didn't detect the bug.
So I didn't test with qemu not having this patch, but according to the discussion in the launchpad bug the problem only happens with qemu-kvm. This doesn't rule out it being a bug, perhaps it is just triggered much less frequently I guess. > > My concerns regarding other side effects of juggling with global mutex > in spice code remain. > > Jan >
