On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 3:37 PM, Eric Searcy <emsearcy at gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 2:57 AM, Poh Yong Hwang <yongsan at gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> The message log belongs to the guest which will become unresponsive from >> time to time. I have done the following and it report the same both on host >> as well as guest: >> [root at localhost conf]# cat /proc/sys/kernel/tainted >> 65 > > 65 = 1 + 64 > > 1 - A module with a non-GPL license has been loaded, this > includes modules with no license. > 64 - The user has asked that the system be marked "tainted". This > could be because they are running software that directly modifies > the hardware, or for other reasons. > > So, you won't be able to get any help from kernel people (probably) > unless you can reproduce the problem without any binary kernel > modules. The OP's kernel is apparently "Tainted" as seen on this line: > Oct 14 16:24:49 localhost kernel: Pid: 2363, comm: ntpd Tainted: P 2.6.18-194.3.1.el5 #1 However, what is strange is (now this is going to be off-topic here) that systems loaded with kmod-kvm show: $ cat /proc/sys/kernel/tainted 64 $ rpm -qi kmod-kvm | grep License Size : 4614945 License: GPLv2 Despite the fact the kvm module is GPL'd, the value of tainted is non-zero. This kernel is supposed to be NOT tainted. Could someone using kvm confirm this ? Akemi