Re: [Qemu-devel] Suggested Parameters for SLES 10 64-bit

2010-05-23 Thread Peter Lieven
Am 18.05.2010 um 15:51 schrieb Alexander Graf: > Peter Lieven wrote: >> Alexander Graf wrote: >>> Peter Lieven wrote: >>> we are running on intel xeons here: >>> >>> That might be the reason. Does it break when passing -no-kvm? >>> >>> processor: 0 vendor_id: Genu

Re: [Qemu-devel] Suggested Parameters for SLES 10 64-bit

2010-05-18 Thread Peter Lieven
Alexander Graf wrote: Peter Lieven wrote: Alexander Graf wrote: Peter Lieven wrote: we are running on intel xeons here: That might be the reason. Does it break when passing -no-kvm? processor: 0 vendor_id: GenuineIntel cpu family: 6 model

Re: [Qemu-devel] Suggested Parameters for SLES 10 64-bit

2010-05-18 Thread Alexander Graf
Peter Lieven wrote: > Alexander Graf wrote: >> Peter Lieven wrote: >> >>> we are running on intel xeons here: >>> >> >> That might be the reason. Does it break when passing -no-kvm? >> >> >>> processor: 0 >>> vendor_id: GenuineIntel >>> cpu family: 6 >>> model: 26 >>> m

Re: [Qemu-devel] Suggested Parameters for SLES 10 64-bit

2010-05-18 Thread Andi Kleen
Peter Lieven writes: > Starting mail service (Postfix) > NMI Watchdog detected LOCKUP on CPU 0 You could simply turn off the NMI watchdog (nmi_watchdog=0 at the kernel command line) Perhaps the PMU emulation is not complete and nmi watchdog needs PMU. It's not really needed normally. -Andi

Re: [Qemu-devel] Suggested Parameters for SLES 10 64-bit

2010-05-18 Thread Alexander Graf
Peter Lieven wrote: > we are running on intel xeons here: That might be the reason. Does it break when passing -no-kvm? > > processor: 0 > vendor_id: GenuineIntel > cpu family: 6 > model: 26 > model name: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU L5530 @ 2.40GHz > stepping: 5 >

Re: [Qemu-devel] Suggested Parameters for SLES 10 64-bit

2010-05-18 Thread Peter Lieven
Alexander Graf wrote: Peter Lieven wrote: we are running on intel xeons here: That might be the reason. Does it break when passing -no-kvm? processor: 0 vendor_id: GenuineIntel cpu family: 6 model: 26 model name: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU L5530 @ 2.40

Re: [Qemu-devel] Suggested Parameters for SLES 10 64-bit

2010-05-18 Thread Peter Lieven
Alexander Graf wrote: Peter, Peter Lieven wrote: hi alex, here is a backtrace of the sles 10 sp1 vm running on qemu-kvm 0.12.4. hanging at boot. Please do not top post! Seriously. One more time and I'll stop responding. I tried to reproduce this locally on an openSUSE 11.1 system us

Re: [Qemu-devel] Suggested Parameters for SLES 10 64-bit

2010-05-18 Thread Alexander Graf
Peter, Peter Lieven wrote: > hi alex, > > here is a backtrace of the sles 10 sp1 vm running on qemu-kvm 0.12.4. > hanging at boot. Please do not top post! Seriously. One more time and I'll stop responding. I tried to reproduce this locally on an openSUSE 11.1 system using latest qemu-kvm.git/sta

Re: [Qemu-devel] Suggested Parameters for SLES 10 64-bit

2010-05-18 Thread Peter Lieven
during my tests i also got the following error: Freeing initrd memory: 2860k freed not found! ..MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC failed. timer doesn't work through the IO-APIC - disabling NMI Watchdog!

Re: [Qemu-devel] Suggested Parameters for SLES 10 64-bit

2010-05-18 Thread Peter Lieven
hi alex, here is a backtrace of the sles 10 sp1 vm running on qemu-kvm 0.12.4. hanging at boot. a colleguage is meanwhile upgraded a cloned system to sp3 to see if it is also not working. ^C Program received signal SIGINT, Interrupt. [Switching to Thread 0x7f0b753c76f0 (LWP 25532)] 0x7f

Re: [Qemu-devel] Suggested Parameters for SLES 10 64-bit

2010-05-18 Thread Alexander Graf
On 18.05.2010, at 13:08, Peter Lieven wrote: > Alexander Graf wrote: >> On 18.05.2010, at 13:01, Peter Lieven wrote: >> >> >>> hi alex, >>> >>> unfortunately -cpu host, -cpu qemu64, -cpu core2duo, -cpu kvm64 (which >>> should be default) doesn't help >>> all other cpus available are 32-bit a

Re: [Qemu-devel] Suggested Parameters for SLES 10 64-bit

2010-05-18 Thread Peter Lieven
Alexander Graf wrote: On 18.05.2010, at 13:01, Peter Lieven wrote: hi alex, unfortunately -cpu host, -cpu qemu64, -cpu core2duo, -cpu kvm64 (which should be default) doesn't help all other cpus available are 32-bit afaik. as i said if i boot with with kernel parameter "nohpet", but acpi o

Re: [Qemu-devel] Suggested Parameters for SLES 10 64-bit

2010-05-18 Thread Alexander Graf
On 18.05.2010, at 13:01, Peter Lieven wrote: > hi alex, > > unfortunately -cpu host, -cpu qemu64, -cpu core2duo, -cpu kvm64 (which should > be default) doesn't help > all other cpus available are 32-bit afaik. > > as i said if i boot with with kernel parameter "nohpet", but acpi on the > gues

Re: [Qemu-devel] Suggested Parameters for SLES 10 64-bit

2010-05-18 Thread Peter Lieven
hi alex, unfortunately -cpu host, -cpu qemu64, -cpu core2duo, -cpu kvm64 (which should be default) doesn't help all other cpus available are 32-bit afaik. as i said if i boot with with kernel parameter "nohpet", but acpi on the guest just hangs at 100% cpu. would a backtrace help? br, pete

Re: [Qemu-devel] Suggested Parameters for SLES 10 64-bit

2010-05-18 Thread Alexander Graf
On 18.05.2010, at 12:12, Peter Lieven wrote: > hi alex, > > what 64-bit -cpu types do you suggest? For starters I'd say try -cpu host. Alex

Re: [Qemu-devel] Suggested Parameters for SLES 10 64-bit

2010-05-18 Thread Alexander Graf
Hi Peter, On 18.05.2010, at 12:18, Peter Lieven wrote: > Sorry, ommitted your questions. This particular system > is still runnung on Please don't top post. > > /kernel: /2.6.31-14-server, /bin: /qemu-kvm-0.12.2, /mod: /kvm-kmod-2.6.32.7 This looks reasonable. Alex

Re: [Qemu-devel] Suggested Parameters for SLES 10 64-bit

2010-05-18 Thread Peter Lieven
Sorry, ommitted your questions. This particular system is still runnung on /kernel: /2.6.31-14-server, /bin: /qemu-kvm-0.12.2, /mod: /kvm-kmod-2.6.32.7 If there where any fixes improvements I can try on: /kernel: /2.6.33.3, /bin: /qemu-kvm-0.12.4, /mod: /2.6.33.3 BR, Peter Alexander Graf wrot

Re: [Qemu-devel] Suggested Parameters for SLES 10 64-bit

2010-05-18 Thread Peter Lieven
hi alex, what 64-bit -cpu types do you suggest? when i boot the kernel with "nohpet" it simply hangs shortly after powersaved... br, peter Alexander Graf wrote: On 18.05.2010, at 11:57, Peter Lieven wrote: Alexander Graf wrote: On 18.05.2010, at 11:14, Peter Lieven wrote:

Re: [Qemu-devel] Suggested Parameters for SLES 10 64-bit

2010-05-18 Thread Alexander Graf
On 18.05.2010, at 11:57, Peter Lieven wrote: > Alexander Graf wrote: >> On 18.05.2010, at 11:14, Peter Lieven wrote: >> >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> we try to migrate some Suse Linux Enterprise 10 64-bit guests from abandoned >>> Virtual Iron by Iron Port to qemu-kvm 0.12.4. Unfortunately the guests ar

Re: [Qemu-devel] Suggested Parameters for SLES 10 64-bit

2010-05-18 Thread Peter Lieven
Alexander Graf wrote: On 18.05.2010, at 11:14, Peter Lieven wrote: Hi, we try to migrate some Suse Linux Enterprise 10 64-bit guests from abandoned Virtual Iron by Iron Port to qemu-kvm 0.12.4. Unfortunately the guests are not very stable by now. With ACPI they end up in a kernel panic at b

Re: [Qemu-devel] Suggested Parameters for SLES 10 64-bit

2010-05-18 Thread Alexander Graf
On 18.05.2010, at 11:14, Peter Lieven wrote: > Hi, > > we try to migrate some Suse Linux Enterprise 10 64-bit guests from abandoned > Virtual Iron by Iron Port to qemu-kvm 0.12.4. Unfortunately the guests are not > very stable by now. With ACPI they end up in a kernel panic at boot time and > w

[Qemu-devel] Suggested Parameters for SLES 10 64-bit

2010-05-18 Thread Peter Lieven
Hi, we try to migrate some Suse Linux Enterprise 10 64-bit guests from abandoned Virtual Iron by Iron Port to qemu-kvm 0.12.4. Unfortunately the guests are not very stable by now. With ACPI they end up in a kernel panic at boot time and without they occasionally hang during boot or shortly aft