On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 05:10:51AM -0400, Brad Smith wrote: > On 17/06/14 4:56 AM, Mikolaj Kucharski wrote: > >On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 11:07:39PM +0100, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > >>previously on this list Mikolaj Kucharski contributed: > >> > >>>by disabling mpbios on > >>>>OpenBSD and falling back to the old pic controller, in this case you > >>>> > >>> > >>>I cannot find how to enable 'the old pic controller' in libvirt with > >>>qemu-kvm. Do you know by any chance how to enable it? > >> > >>I believe he means disabling mpbios at OpenBSD's boot or in boot.conf > >>means KVM will automatically fall back. Virtual hosting companies like > >>arpnetworks generally ask you to do this for OpenBSD. > >> > >>boot -c > >>disable mpbios > > > >Ah, I got confused. Yes, I'm aware of this, as I've seen this on the > >list archives mentioned few times. I actually tested this, and I don't > >see any difference. See at my below tests: > > Because ACPI is in use which takes higher precedence over MP BIOS. You > have to disable acpimadt. > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. >
Randomly disabling parts of the kernel is likely to cause other problems. -ml
