On Mon, Apr 04, 2016 at 04:02:04PM +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > (1) initrd loading is broken, kernel complains it finds only gibberish: > > [ 0.934582] Unpacking initramfs... > [ 1.166983] Initramfs unpacking failed: junk in compressed archive > [ 1.168458] Freeing initrd memory: 32812k freed
That's strange. I certainly never saw anything like this. I wonder if it's because your initrd is particularly large? > (2) going back to non-dma boot via -M pc-$old doesn't work, appearently > fw_cfg dma is enabled even for old machine types. IIRC there was a thread about how we accidentally added DMA to old machine types. Does this matter? Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-df lists disk usage of guests without needing to install any software inside the virtual machine. Supports Linux and Windows. http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/
