Re: kern/44069: NetBSD-current hangs during boot under Linux kvm emulation

[Andreas Gustafsson <gson%gson.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/44069; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Andreas Gustafsson <gson%gson.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: kern-bug-people%netbsd.org@localhost,
    gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost,
    netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost,
    gson%gson.org@localhost (Andreas Gustafsson)
Subject: Re: kern/44069: NetBSD-current hangs during boot under Linux kvm 
emulation
Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 11:36:39 +0200

 Jukka Ruohonen wrote:
 >  What I meant to ask is: has this revision worked on KVM before? 
 
 All my test results were obtained using the same version of KVM
 (qemu-kvm 0.12.3 and the kvm.ko in the Ubuntu 2.6.32-25-server
 kernel); the NetBSD versions tested were all recently built from
 date-based checkouts of historic sources.
 
 I don't know whether or not the versions of NetBSD that failed to boot
 with this version of KVM would boot with older versions of KVM, and I
 don't have an easy way to test that.
 
 > That is, whether this regression is ours or theirs.
 
 There is a regression on our part, in the sense that a newer version
 of NetBSD fails where an older version works, everything else being
 equal.  Lacking an easy way of testing old KVM versions, I can't say
 whether or not there is also a regression on KVM's part.
 -- 
 Andreas Gustafsson, gson%gson.org@localhost