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William King (quentusrex) wrote : Re: [Bug 712878] Re: KVM guest hangs on 'booting from hard disk' 10.10 for guest and host.

The guests were single cpu server kernel, more info tomorrow.
On Feb 5, 2011 10:55 PM, "Brian Knoll" <email address hidden> wrote:
> Could you please tell us if the VMs that won't boot are SMP VMs? I know
> it's the SMP kernel but what I mean is, is KVM giving the VM more than
> one CPU? If they are SMP VMs, could you please try to make them single-
> CPU and try to boot them, then let us know what happens? I am seeing a
> bug with Linux SMP guests under KVM which causes boot failures and
> random hangs, and I wonder if it's related.
>
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> Title:
> KVM guest hangs on 'booting from hard disk' 10.10 for guest and host.
>
> Status in Virtual Machine Builder:
> New
> Status in “kvm” package in Ubuntu:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: kvm
>
> The last working guest was provisioned on Jan 5th, 2011. Just tried to
> provisioned another guest with vmbuilder and it fails to boot.
>
> On the host:
> uname -a
> Linux thedraft 2.6.35-25-server #44-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jan 21 19:09:14 UTC
2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> head /proc/cpuinfo
> processor : 0
> vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
> cpu family : 16
> model : 9
> model name : AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 6128
> stepping : 1
> cpu MHz : 800.000
> cache size : 512 KB
> physical id : 0
> siblings : 8
>
> dpkg -l |grep qemu
> ii qemu-common 0.12.5+noroms-0ubuntu7.1 qemu common functionality (bios,
documentation, etc)
> ii qemu-kvm 0.12.5+noroms-0ubuntu7.1 Full virtualization on i386 and amd64
hardware
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