Hardy Backports

please backport kvm

Bug #252257 reported by Steven Wagner
This bug report is a duplicate of:  Bug #396721: backport kvm-84 to hardy and intrepid. Edit Remove
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Bug Description

One of those strange cases where the "stable" version of software is less stable then the "edge" version. And the edge version is more stable then the stable. I hate it when that happens.

http://kvm.qumranet.com/kvmwiki/ChangeLog
Its nearly all fixes that have been applied, and all the crashes I am reporting have been said in #kvm to be already fixed.

This is my last hope to get kvm usable on ubuntu hardy, or I will have to go back to Xen. Right now my guest hosts are freezing.

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Steven Wagner (stevenwagner) wrote :

I have built kvm_71+dfsg-1ubuntu1~8.04prevu1_i386.deb and it installed with dpkg -i just fine. /usr/bin/kvm now shows version 71 on my system. I will be testing to see if my problems are resolved.

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Steven Wagner (stevenwagner) wrote :

Im still having the same problem, even with kvm71. SMP releated, guests get hung up and come back when I login to a virt-console.

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Martin Schwenke (martin-meltin) wrote :

I've grabbed the intrepid sources for KVM, compiled, installed kvm and kvm-source.

I then do:

  module-assistant auto-install --force kvm

and kvm-modules-2.6.24-19-generic is built and installed. This installs the modules under:

  /lib/modules/2.6.24-19-generic/misc/

Now, "depmod -a" only finds the modules under

  /lib/modules/2.6.24-19-generic/kernel/arch/x86/kvm/

as does modprobe.

However, I can insmod the modules from kvm-modules-2.6.24-19-generic so they appear to be fine for the current kernel.

So, is there subtle packaging issue where this would work with the intrepid kernel but not the hardy one?

The main consideration is that the kvm-modules package might need to dpkg-divert the kvm modules installed as part of the main kernel package. kvm-modules could then install its modules over the top... or elsewhere as it does currently.

I'm obviously missing something... :-)

Thanks...

peace & happiness,
martin

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Michael Casadevall (mcasadevall) wrote :

This appears to be a serious regression in Hardy, and thus might be suitable for an SRU. Please file a bug directly against kvm and subscribe the appropriate SRU team. If they do not believe it meets release update criteria, then please reopen this bug.

Changed in hardy-backports:
status: New → Invalid
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