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Re: hanging while install OpenSolaris (Nov 2008 version)


On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 09:11:03AM -0400, Peter Teoh wrote:
> I got a mid-way hang while installing OpenSolaris on KVM guest yesterday.
> The hardware is kvm-intel enabled.   I tried the same thing on
> Athlon64, but it does not have svm hardware enabled.   So qemu startup saying
> /dev/kvm cannot be found, even though i had explicitly insmod kvm, and
> dmesg show svm not enabled message.   But it is able to go through the
> installation.
> 
> How can i debug via kvmtrace (or systemtap) to find out at which point it
> hanged?   I gdb attached the hanging process (from host OS side), but
> got a stuck at some select() in vl.c....not helpful.   Best will be a
> debugging backtrace at the guest level, but then the guest is still midway
> reading the iso images, and  then hang there.....no installation done
> yet.
> 
> Thank you for the advice.

Peter, 

Take a look at http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Bugs, there's some
information that might be helpful there.


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