RHEL 6.1 guest fails to boot with vhost

[Pradeep K Surisetty]

Tried to boot 6.1 guest on hs22 blade with/without vhost enabled.

With vhost enabled, guest aborted with core dump.

installed guest with autotest.
Command :
/usr/local/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -name 'vm1' -nodefaults -vga std -monitor unix:'/tmp/monitor-humanmonitor1-20111108-193209-fc6O',server,nowait -serial unix:'/tmp/serial-20111108-193209-fc6O',server,nowait -drive file='/home/pradeep/autotest/client/tests/kvm/images/rhel6.1-64.qed',index=0,if=virtio,cache=none -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=idQhUaOc,mac='9a:b7:ea:c9:0e:0d',id='idVR6XQz' -netdev tap,id=idQhUaOc,vhost=on,script=/home/pradeep/qemu-ifup-latest -m 1024 -smp 8 -vnc :0 -monitor stdio
QEMU 0.15.91 monitor - type 'help' for more information
(qemu) Aborted (core dumped)

host:

2.6.32-214
m/c: hs22
vhost modules are loaded.

[Pradeep K Surisetty (pradeepkumars)]

i hits this issue on host: 3.1.0+ also

[Thomas Huth (th-huth)]

Can you still reproduce this problem with the latest version of QEMU from http://qemu-project.org/Download and recent host and guest Linux kernels?

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