Comment 9 for bug 221032

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Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand) wrote :

UPDATE:

-server kernel gives far few lockups with kvm62 on hardy, but it locked up twice for me. Here is my testing so far (all tests have -server guest kernel):

kvm66 with -generic host kernel: 11 FAIL 1 PASS
kvm66 with -server host kernel: 5 FAIL 0 PASS
kvm62 (hardy) -generic host kernel: 13 FAIL 0 PASS
kvm62 (hardy) -server host kernel: 2 FAIL 7 PASS

'FAIL' means soft lockup encountered and 'PASS' means successful boot to login prompt. Note that for each test I start with a blank slate by stopping all vms, killing all kvm processes, then reloading the kvm driver.