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 -- Michael Kress, kress at hal.saar.de http://www.michael-kress.de / http://kress.net P E N G U I N S A R E C O O L