<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Chris Lalancette wrote: <blockquote cite="mid4A1B90FC.7050901@redhat.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Gerry Reno wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Gerry Reno wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Gerry Reno wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Daniel P. Berrange wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 03:43:12PM -0400, Gerry Reno wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">I upgraded the host from F10 to F11 (x86_64) with no issues. Now when I start a F10 (i386) guest it runs very very slow. I also see messages on the guest boot console about "clocksource tsc unstable" and some kernel oops. Once it got far enough to start network I logged in and checked the clocksource and it currently is 'acpi_pm' even though the kernel line says clocksource=pit. The available clocksources are acpi_pm, jiffies, and tsc. I do not see 'pit' in the list. How do I fix this issue? </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">If the guest runs 'extrememly' slowly then the most like thing is that it has fallen back to using QEMU emulation, instead of KVM hardware acceleration. Check the /var/log/libvirt/qemu/$GUEST.log to see if there is any mesage about not being able to open /dev/kvm. Also make sure that KVM modules are loaded, and that 'virsh capabilities' lists KVM as a valid domain. Daniel </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">Ok, I checked the guest log and it says: /dev/kvm: no such file or directory. So how do I make this node? Shouldn't libvirt have made it for us? </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">Ok, once I got both kernel modules loaded, it created the /dev/kvm device and now everything runs fine. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">Well, not quite so fine. If I reboot the machine then the kvm modules are no longer loaded. How do I keep these modules loaded? </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> I'm assuming that you haven't installed qemu from the F-11 packages. If you install the qemu-system-x86 on F-11, it comes with a file /etc/sysconfig/modules/kvm.modules. On bootup, any scripts in that directory are executed, and that command automatically loads the appropriate modules for you. If you don't want to install the F-11 qemu-system-x86 package for some reason, you'll have to arrange to do the same with a custom script in that directory, or just in /etc/rc.d/rc.local. </pre> </blockquote> <tt>Thanks Chris. I found an update to the 'qemu' package and ran 'yum update qemu'. After the update then this file: /etc/sysconfig/modules/kvm.modules was added. Now the kvm modules stay loaded across reboots. I wonder why the F11 upgrade didn't bring in this package? Maybe it's not on the DVD. Regards, Gerry </tt> </body> </html>