Bug#496917: definitely present in Lenny

[dann frazier <dannf@debian.org>]

On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 01:12:58PM +0200, Philipp Hübner wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> this bug is definitely present in up2date Lenny.

There are optional, more up to date kvm modules in lenny.
Are you using those? Does the problem go away if you do?

This sequence of commands should build/install them for you:
  apt-get install kvm-source module-assistant
  m-a prepare
  m-a a-i kvm

> I have several machines running kvm, and they all have this problem.
> Guests at high load get stuck and cause 100% cpu load on as many
> cores/cpus in the host as have been assigned to the guest virtually.
> 
> Using a newer kernel like 2.6.29 in the guest didn't change anything.
> 
> I didn't try 2.6.29 on the host because for some reason kvm could not
> assign more than 3,5 Gb RAM to a guest then, while this works with 2.6.26=
> =2E
> 
> Regards,
> --=20
>  .''`.   Philipp H=FCbner <debalance@arcor.de>
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