[virt-tools-list] how to virtualize an ancient 2.2 kernel

[Stefan G. Weichinger]

Am 17.10.2012 02:53, schrieb Cole Robinson:

> Your guest config up thread looked fine AFAICT. But then I've never tried to
> run a kernel-2.2 VM.
> 
> The OS type in virt-manager for linux 2.4 vs. generic isn't going to make much
> difference either.
> 
> Maybe try switch the CPU model to some older type CPUs pentium2 etc, whatever
> was common around the time of that release. Perhaps also try switch domain
> type="qemu", occasionally kvm can interfere with things.
> 
> Barring any of those, I'd try and build a qemu command line by hand that
> reproduces the issue, confirm with latest qemu, and mail qemu-devel about your
> issue.

Thanks for your suggestions, Cole.

As you may have read already I was able to solve that issue by enabling
DMA for that virtual IDE-drive.  This helped to fix the performance
problems!

Thanks, Stefan