Run OpenSolaris-0906 as KVM guest under linux-image-2.6.32-5 with AMD athlon.

I mentioned before, OpenSolaris-0906 KVM guest hangs under linux-image-2.6.32-5 (32bit) with AMD
athlon CPU. I found a workaround.

Host OS envrionment I used is below,

  1. AMD Athlon 5600 CPU
  2. Memory 2GB
  3. Debian sid (sqeeze/sid)
  4. linux-image-2.6.32-5-686 (32bit)
  5. libvirt

A workaround is adding following directive to xml definition of guest.


qemu32

I don't know why cpu model of qemu32 avoids hanging up OpenSolaris KVM guest.

This workaround works,but the OpenSolaris KVM guest seems slower than under linux-image-2.6.30 for me.