Re: [kvm-devel] [ANNOUNCE] kvm-51 release

[Avi K. <av...@qu...>]

david ahern wrote:
> I let the host stay up for 90 minutes before loading kvm and starting a VM. On the first reboot it hangs at 'Starting udev'.
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First reboot or first boot?

I thought the problem was cold starting a VM.

> I added 'noapic' to the kernel boot options, and it boots fine. (Turns out I only added that to grub.conf in images that run a particular ap for which I am running performance tests.)
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> I would like to know why I need the noapic option to get around this and the networking problem. Are there performance hits as a side effect?
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>   

Looks like there's a bug in the apic emulation.  There probably are 
performance implications.  Does -no-kvm-irqchip help?


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