Bug 578577

Summary: Linux pvmmu guests (FC11, FC12, etc) crash on boot on AMD hosts with NPT disabled
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: RHEL Program Management <pm-rhel>
Component: kvmAssignee: Virtualization Maintenance <virt-maint>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
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Priority: high    
Version: 5.5CC: ehabkost, lihuang, llim, michen, mjenner, mtosatti, pm-eus, virt-maint, ykaul
Target Milestone: rcKeywords: ZStream
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OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: kvm-83-105.el5_4.29 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2010-05-21 07:42:30 UTC Type: ---
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Bug Depends On: 574621    
Bug Blocks: 518493    

Description RHEL Program Management 2010-03-31 17:27:55 UTC 
This bug has been copied from bug #574621 and has been proposed
to be backported to 5.4 z-stream (EUS).
Comment 5 Miya Chen 2010-04-08 08:30:33 UTC 
Tested in kvm-83-105.el5-4.30, this problem does not exist.
cmd:

   1. /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -no-hpet -rtc-td-hack -usbdevice tablet -smp 2 -m 4G -drive file=f12_32.qcow2,if=ide -net nic,vlan=0,macaddr=20:88:99:11:99:31 -net tap,vlan=0,script=/etc/qemu-ifup -uuid `uuidgen` -cpu qemu64,+sse2 -vnc :16 -monitor stdio -boot n

result:
f12_32bit can be installed successfully and then can boot successfully.
Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2010-05-21 07:42:30 UTC 
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2010-0434.html