[issue1029] Dragonfly under KVM

[Sepherosa Ziehau]

On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 7:56 PM, Gary Allan <dragonfly at gallan.co.uk> wrote:
> As Freddie says I'm running the QEmu KVM software on Ubuntu x64. DragonFly
> is running 32bit with 3.5Gb RAM and 4 CPUs (AMD-Phenom).
> I can also trigger SMP DragonFly to lock up during a buildworld on VMWare
> Server 1.0.5 (Dual Core, 2Gb RAM) and VirtualBox. I haven't tried the bare
> metal but could do so if anyone thinks it would be useful. I'm running HEAD
> as of yesterday but 1.12.2 also locks up.
>
> The kernel is GENERIC with "options SMP" and "options APIC_IO" enabled and

I have a box using Phenom 9550 and 2GB ram.  Dfly HEAD runs directly
on the box (no virtual tech involved).  Kernel is configured with SMP
and APIC_IO.  I build world and kernel with -j 8 or -j 16 w/o any
issues.

> no modifications to /etc/make.conf. I have also tried enabling "options
> ACPI_QUIRK_VMWARE".
>
> For debugging I copied the kernel and source to my Ubuntu home directory and
> ran.
>
> kvm -smp 4 -m 3500 -hda "~/img/dfly.img" -net nic,model=e1000,vlan=1 -net
> user,vlan=1 -redir tcp:2201::22 -s
> gdb -s kernel.SMP -d ~/source/
> (gdb) target remote localhost:1234
> (gdb) c
>
> Regards
>
> Gary
>
>
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