* had to upgrade kernel to get badblocks to pass for virtio-stor (for small swap partition) * scsi emulation seems unstable - puts kvm in unusable state after days of use... only fix is to stop, start vm (clicking "reset" doesn't fix) * virtio fails for partitions >1 TB (mkfs.ext2 verifies this quickly): - http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=893831&aid=2933400&group_id=180599 - http://marc.info/?l=qemu-devel&m=127436114712437 - http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=321005 - https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qemu-kvm/+bug/574665 - http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/qemu.git/commit/?id=77be4366baface6613cfc312ba281f8e5860997c - http://git.kernel.org/?p=virt/kvm/qemu-kvm.git;a=commit;h=77be4366baface6613cfc312ba281f8e5860997c - put patch in pve-qemu-kvm_2010-05-25/debian/patches - grab, install etherboot from squeeze - add filename you created to pve-qemu-kvm_2010-05-25/debian/patches/series - sudo aptitude install git-core build-essential debhelper autotools-dev libpci-dev quilt etherboot lintian fakeroot - sudo apt-get build-dep kvm binaries: http://download.proxmox.com/debian/ source: http://download.proxmox.com/sources/ upgraded to same repo as kernel: acpi-support-base acpid Package: acpi-support-base Pin: release a=testing Pin-Priority: 999 Package: acpid Pin: release a=testing Pin-Priority: 999