[libvirt] HELP: after host upgrade to F11, guest runs extremely slow

[Gerry Reno]

Gerry Reno wrote:
> Gerry Reno wrote:
>> Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>>> On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 03:43:12PM -0400, Gerry Reno wrote:
>>>   
>>>> 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?
>>>>     
>>>
>>> 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
>>>   
>> 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?
>>
> Ok, once I got both kernel modules loaded, it created the /dev/kvm 
> device and now everything runs fine.
>
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?

Regards,
Gerry

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