For clarification,  your statement "we currently use userspace from 72 and kmod from 71" pertains to use with the current centos kernel (2.6.18-92), correct?  Also, which version of qemu are you using?

- Michael Schenck


On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 3:51 PM, Farkas Levente <lfarkas@lfarkas.org> wrote:
Karanbir Singh wrote:
> Farkas Levente wrote:
>> Karanbir Singh wrote:
>>> Farkas Levente wrote:
>>>> as i wrote earlier i've got many packages backported from fedora:
>>>> http://www.lfarkas.org/linux/packages/centos/5/SRPMS/
>>>> but none of them really working (there are many kvm bugs on
>>>> rhel/centos-5 which is not fixed:-()
>>> its a bit academic to have packages if they dont work!
>>
>> each of them working with _some_ guest but none of them working with
>> all..
>>
>
> thats interesting, is there a table with details somewhere ? eg. What
> ver works with what guest ?

read my mails in kvm list:-)
anyway in short or setup at the end.
guest:
- mandrake-10 can't boot since 72
- centos x86_64 can't boot on 78,79
- fedora-9 can't boot with kernel-2.6.27.x in 77,78,79
- pxe boot not working long ago (at least 69)
we currently use userspace from 72 and kmod from 71 this was the last
usable combination. at a new release i always try to boot these guests
and looking for any new version which will boot all and i immediately
stop building new kmods and stay at that version.
there was a promise for a new stable version for 2.6.28.
imho the bast for wait for that.

- host:
 - Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600  @ 2.40GHz
 - Intel S3000AHV
 - 8GB RAM
 - CentOS-5.2
 - kernel-2.6.18-92.1.18.el5 x86_64 64bit
- guest-1:
 - CentOS-5.2 - 4 vcpu
 - kernel-2.6.18-92.1.18.el5 i386 32bit
- guest-2:
 - CentOS-5.2 - 4 vcpu
 - kernel-2.6.18-92.1.18.el5 x86_64 64bit
- guest-3:
 - Mandrake-9 - 1 vcpu
 - kernel-2.4.19.16mdk-1-1mdk 32bit
- guest-4:
 - Mandrake-10 - 1 vcpu
 - kernel-2.6.14.2-p4-smp 32bit
- guest-5:
 - Windows XP Professional 32bit - 2 vcpu
- guest-7:
 - Fedora-9 - 4 vcpu
 - kernel-2.6.27.5-37.fc9.i686

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