[PATCH]: Backport KVM Intel MSR fix
Josh Boyer
jwboyer at gmail.com
Wed Sep 17 15:20:52 UTC 2008
On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 04:32:05PM +0200, Chris Lalancette wrote:
>All,
> Currently, RHEL-4.7 and RHEL-5.3(preview) KVM guests will crash on bootup
>on Intel machines running F-9 kernels. This is because of a bug in the way that
>KVM emulates performance counter MSRs. This was fixed upstream by this commit:
>
>http://git2.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=efa67e0d1f51842393606034051d805ab9948abd
>
>However, it fell into a strange window and missed both 2.6.25 and 2.6.26, but is
>now in 2.6.27 (which means F-10 will be just fine). In the interest of helping
>out the Fedora users (especially for Bugzilla bug 462177 and duplicates), I
>backported this very simple patch to the current head of F-9 CVS (2.6.26.5).
>The patch is attached. If there are no objections, can someone please commit this?
Attached where? Has the Zimbra patch goblin eaten it again?
josh
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