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From: "Stefan G. Weichinger" <lists@×××××.at>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] qemu-kvm and libvirt: running an ancient guest
Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2012 23:16:07
Message-Id: 5074AFE0.70505@xunil.at
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] qemu-kvm and libvirt: running an ancient guest by "Stefan G. Weichinger"
1 Am 09.10.2012 22:45, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger:
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3 > Unfortunately I still don't see what to compile in for this unknown
4 > PCI-device: the old kernel seems not to know what to do with PIIX3
5 > (although exactly the same kernel uses PIIX4 fine on vmware).
6 >
7 > Maybe some different PCI-bus .. ?
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9 after all it seems to boil down to enabling DMA (for the IDE-controller)
10 in the kernel ...
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12 *sigh*
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14 Let's see what the customer says.
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16 thanks @Florian for pointing me back to the idea of compiling a "fresh"
17 kernel ...
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19 Stefan