On 02/02/11 - 10:51:54AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 11:39:23PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 05:08:42PM -0500, Chris Lalancette wrote: > > > On 01/28/11 - 10:44:37PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > > > On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 05:49:58PM +0000, Rhonda Kern wrote: > > > > > I am trying to create a virtual machine on a 64 bit RHEL 6 machine. > > > > > There are 4 processors on the host and 24G of RAM. I will be > > > > > running an old version of redhat 7.3 as the guest o/s. > > > > ^^^^^^^^^^ > > > > > > > > Unfortunately this isn't going to work. KVM does not emulate some > > > > peculiarities of the hardware that old RHL relies on. I've tried it > > > > in the past .. it's a no go. > > > > > > Actually, this isn't true. I've recently installed RHL 7.3 under KVM on > > > my > > > AMD box (running F-13). Of course, it isn't something that the KVM > > > developers > > > typically spend a lot of time on, but in general it has worked for me. > > > > I had to try this, and (of course) Chris is correct that RHL 7.3 does > > install on Fedora 14 in qemu-kvm. > > Chris did you have any problems during the install when > swapping virtual CDs over: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=674530
That's not something I tried. The way I installed it is via the bootnet.img floppy and an http URL. That being said, your problem seems very familiar. I swear we have some open bugs about this elsewhere, and I also thought we had fixed it, but I can't find the relevant bugs at present. Thanks for filing a new one for now :) -- Chris Lalancette _______________________________________________ virt-tools-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/virt-tools-list
