[Bug 559088] Re: qemu-kvm and guest kernel < 2.6.24 sporadic boot fail: Kernel panic - not syncing: IO-APIC + timer doesn't work!

[Dustin Kirkland]

Thanks for the research Chris.

Marking Triaged, since you've tracked this down to the upstream mailing
list posts.  Marking Low, since kernels <2.6.24 are (hopefully) becoming
increasingly rare.

To your two suggestions...  I know that upstream qemu in the past has
really, really tried to avoid special case code for buggy behavior in
guests.  The latter is far more doable.  How do you propose that we do
this?  If your guest is an Ubuntu kernel <2.6.24 (ie, Dapper), we can
open a task and try to get it fixed.  If it's another distribution, I
suggest you try to contact that distribution's kernel developers.

-- 
qemu-kvm and guest kernel < 2.6.24 sporadic boot fail: Kernel panic - not syncing: IO-APIC + timer doesn't work!
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/559088
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Server Team, which is subscribed to qemu-kvm in ubuntu.