CentOS virt - Feb 2009 - centos 4.7 / kvm

Hello,
I'm trying to install centos-4.7 under kvm (for legacy reasons). I can't
get the beast installed, it crashes (see output below).
I'm using:
qemu 0.9.1
kvm-72
libvirt-0.4.6
kernel 2.6.26

What can I do in order to get the installation being done?
The host is a x86_64 machine (debian5).

BTW, the installation for centos-5.2 works like a charm with the above
configuration.

TIA
Regards
Michael

RSP: 0000:000001007fa63eb8 EFLAGS: 00000246
RAX: 0000000000130079 RBX: 0000000000000186 RCX: 0000000000000186
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 00000000000003e8
RBP: 0000000000000014 R08: 000000017ffdf9c0 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 00000000000000c1
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffffffff80573900(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0018 ES: 0018 CR0: 000000008005003b
CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 0000000000101000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
Process swapper (pid: 1, threadinfo 000001001fa12000, task 000001001fa11110)
Stack: 0000000000000000 00000000000003e8 0000000000000000 ffffffff8011a874
0000000000000000 ffffffff8011ea9c 0000000000000186 ffffffff805824dd
0000000000000000 0000000000000800
Call Trace:<ffffffff8011a874>{lapic_watchdog_init+27}
<ffffffff8011ea9c>{setup_apic_nmi_watchdog+47}
<ffffffff805824dd>{setup_local_APIC+332}
<ffffffff805828ff>{APIC_init_uniprocessor+144}
<ffffffff8010c4fe>{init+214} <ffffffff8010c428>{init+0}
<ffffffff80111693>{child_rip+8} <ffffffff8010c428>{init+0}
<ffffffff8011168b>{child_rip+0}

Code: 0f 30 e8 69 fe ff ff 48 c7 c6 05 1c 38 80 89 c2 44 89 e7 e8
RIP <ffffffff8011a543>{setup_p6_watchdog+28} RSP <000001001fa13eb8>
<0>Kernel panic - not syncing: Oops



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Michael Kress wrote:
> I'm trying to install centos-4.7 under kvm (for legacy reasons). I
can't
> get the beast installed, it crashes (see output below).
> I'm using:
> qemu 0.9.1
> kvm-72
> libvirt-0.4.6
> kernel 2.6.26
>
> What can I do in order to get the installation being done?
> The host is a x86_64 machine (debian5).
>   
...
> <ffffffff8011ea9c>{setup_apic_nmi_watchdog+47}
>
>   
...

Hi, just to let you know, I found out myself, have to add the following
kernel parameter:
nmi_watchdog=0
Can anybody judge if this has severe consequences or is there a chance
that the machine could run stable as a plain web server?
Regards
Michael



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