On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 12:37 -0600, Alex Williamson wrote: > I'm seeing problems with this using a Debian Lenny guest, it gets glibc > realloc errors in the init scripts/initramfs. Using -no-kvm or setting > oos_shadow=0 works around the problem. I also confirmed it was > introduced in commit 641fb03992b20aa640781a245f6b7136f0b845e4. It > should be reproducible using an install from this media: > > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/lenny_di_beta2/i386/iso-cd/debian-LennyBeta2-i386-businesscard.iso > > Host system is running 2.6.27 x86_64 on Intel Xeon E5450. After > install, the guest fails to get to a login prompt w/o the above > workarounds. Running the guest as: > > /usr/local/kvm/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -L /usr/local/kvm/share/qemu > -drive file=/dev/VM/Debian,if=ide,index=0 -m 512 -net nic -net user > -vnc :1
I forgot to mention that this only happens with the Debian 2.6.26 kernel, if you end up with the 2.6.24 kernel after install, try an 'apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade' and reboot to get the newer kernel. Alex -- Alex Williamson HP Open Source & Linux Org. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
