[CentOS-virt] centos 4.7 / kvm

Tue Feb 24 07:24:06 UTC 2009
Michael Kress <kress at hal.saar.de>

Michael Kress wrote:
> I'm trying to install centos-4.7 under kvm (for legacy reasons). I can't
> get the beast installed, it crashes (see output below).
> I'm using:
> qemu 0.9.1
> kvm-72
> libvirt-0.4.6
> kernel 2.6.26
>
> What can I do in order to get the installation being done?
> The host is a x86_64 machine (debian5).
>   

...
> <ffffffff8011ea9c>{setup_apic_nmi_watchdog+47}
>
>   
...

Hi, just to let you know, I found out myself, have to add the following
kernel parameter:
nmi_watchdog=0
Can anybody judge if this has severe consequences or is there a chance
that the machine could run stable as a plain web server?
Regards
Michael



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