Gregory Haskins wrote: > Im pleased to report that with the addition of the PIIX3 fix I posted earlier > coupled with the reversion of 4423, we can now put SUSE Linux Enterprise > Desktop on the list of booting guests. This is verified with 64 bit on 64 > bit on Intel only. The GRUB segfault that I was seeing in 12/13 is fixed > also once moving to the KVM-16 codebase, so the whole thing is working > appropriately now. Thanks for all the help guys! >
Great that it's working! It's nice to have more Linux distros as guests. > Attached, please find a tarball and a quilt series on the patches we are > using to run this on SLEx (I excluded the patches obtained from the tree). I > dont expect most of them to be adopted into the tree. I am just sharing them > in case someone else wants to run on SUSE or has similar problems. One of > the patches adds a rudimentary trace facility that printks VMEXIT activity > (mostly only supporting Intel, however). It also has an optional mode that > allows you to turn on single-step breakpoints so that you can watch the RIP > for each op-code. Note however that turning single-step on seems to change > the behavior (takes unexpected triplefaults) so its not fully baked. The > non-singlestep mode was quite helpful in tracking down the real-mode problems > I was having with the 4423 BIOS. > > There is support for singlestep and hardware breakpoints as a gdbserver stub; you can debug vmlinux in a guest remotely. It's been a long while since I last tested it, so maybe it needs some attention. > We will have to figure out what the problem in the BIOS is w.r.t. 4423 before > this will work with the code in /trunk, however. > I'll take a look. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ kvm-devel mailing list kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel
