[rhelv6-beta-list] RHEL 6 beta 2 - x86_64 version flaky in KVM virtual machine

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 9:34 AM, Justin Clift <justin at salasaga.org> wrote:
> On 07/02/2010 09:16 AM, Scott Dowdle wrote:
> <snip>
>>
>> Thanks for the info.  I hadn't tried to hunt it down yet but I was
>> having all kinds of crashes with the installer myself...  yes on
>> Fedora 13 under KVM... with the x86_64 workstation flavor of RHEL 6
>> beta 2.  I asked if it was just me and now I know it isn't.
>
> It's turned out that using the i386 version of RHEL 6 beta 2 in KVM is also
> unusable.  Marginally better than the x86_64 version, but still extremely
> flaky for some important things. (ie having a network connection)
>
> Uninstalling KVM on my local F13 system, and using VirtualBox instead, is
> working decently.  Using the x86_64 version of RHEL 6 beta 2 in a VirtualBox
> VM, and so far it's behaving properly, with no crashes nor flakiness.
>  (about 2 hours use so far though)
>
> libvirt (git head) has compiled decently, so this looks workable for now.
>
> Guess that I'll try it again under KVM once RHEL 6 beta 3 is out. :)

>From the data given, it looks like the problem is not as much with
RHEL-6b2 in a virtual environment but with Fedora13 KVM? Is it
possible to see if RHEL-6b2 works well on your hardware directly? And
if its KVM works with RHEL-6b2 inside it? I would think that would
help figure out where the issue is to better get a fix for it.


> Regards and best wishes,
>
> Justin Clift
>
>
>> TYL,
>
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