linux-kernel - Re: OpenSolaris boot failure with KVM and VirtualBox

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Message-Id: <8CF02BC9-C112-422B-A9D7-9B391F6EA694@suse.de>
Date:	Mon, 27 Jul 2009 07:36:10 +0200
From:	Alexander Graf <agraf@...e.de>
To:	g3vbv@...eyonder.co.uk
Cc:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>,
	LKML Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Sid Boyce <sboyce@...eyonder.co.uk>,
	KVM list <kvm@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: OpenSolaris boot failure with KVM and VirtualBox


On 26.07.2009, at 23:59, Sid Boyce wrote:

> On 26/07/09 19:18, Avi Kivity wrote:
>> On 07/26/2009 09:14 PM, Sid Boyce wrote:
>>>
>>>> Is this a regression from previous kernel versions?  What  
>>>> userspace are
>>>> you using?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Currently running 2.6.31-rc4 with the original kqemu-1.4.0pre1 on
>>> openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 4 and it boots OK - a 200G disk image used.
>>> qemu-system-x86_64 -cdrom /ISO/osol-0906-ai-x86.iso -boot d
>>> /osol0906.qcow2 -smp 4 -m 500M&
>>>
>>
>> Wait, are you using kqemu or kvm?
>>
>
> # l /dev/kvm
> crw-rw----+ 1 root root 10, 232 2009-07-24 20:26 /dev/kvm
> # lsmod|grep kvm
> kvm_amd                41908  0
> kvm                   180488  1 kvm_amd
>
> From long ago I read that kvm needed kqemu, so I have always built the
> module, but I see here it's not used.
> lsmod|grep qemu
> kqemu                 173496  0
>
> # rpm -qf /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64
> qemu-0.10.1-2.21

You're not using KVM. "Qemu" is the non-KVM version.

Maybe uli activated the preliminary kvm support in there, but if you  
want the real deal, install the "kvm" package and use /usr/bin/qemu-kvm.

Alex

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