Hi Natalia,

That really helped, it works now :)

Many thanks,
Panos

Natalia Ratnikova wrote:
> Hi Panagiotis,
> similar problem was seen at Karlsruhe. Here's the comment from Armin, 
> who did the install:
> It is a problem with the KVM version, recent kernels and hardware 
> interrupt virtualization. It can be solved by passing 
> "-no-kvm-irqchip" during the VM startup of the machine.
>
> Hope it helps.
> Natalia
>
> Panagiotis Kritikakos wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I've been trying to install SL 5.3 as a KVM guest but faced problems 
>> both with x86_64 and i386 version.
>> I used the latest KVM release.
>>
>> The x86_64 performs the initial boot from the ISO image but it drops 
>> a kernel panic, while the i386 will completes
>> installation fine but will not boot after that.
>>
>> I faced the same problems when I tried installing SL5.2. However, I 
>> tried with a Xen disk image running SL5.2 x86_64
>> and it worked without any problems.
>>
>> Anybody else seen the same behaviour?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Panos
>>
>
>


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