Re: KVM segfaults with 3.5 while installing ubuntu 12.04

From: Avi Kivity
Date: Mon Aug 06 2012 - 08:48:28 EST


On 08/06/2012 03:37 PM, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 08/06/2012 03:12 PM, Avi Kivity wrote:
>> On 08/06/2012 11:46 AM, Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG wrote:
>>
>>> But still i got the segfault and core dump - this is my main problem? I
>>> mean qemu-kvm master isn't declared as stable. So i don't care about the
>>> slowness here.
>>>
>>> What can we do about the core dump and crash?
>>
>> Okay, I reproduced it; it seems aio=native is the culprit. You can try
>> aio=threads as a workaround.
>>
>> Copying some relevant people (context: aio=native on qemu-kvm-1.1.1
>> segfaults pretty early during guest install)
>>
>
> The following ought to fix it:

It does.

Kevin: despite aio=native, I get iothreads and pwrites, something is broken.


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