[elrepo] bizarre issue with latest nvidia driver and kvm

[Akemi Yagi]

On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Joe Pruett <joey at q7.com> wrote:
> my windows7 kvm guest started crashing semi regularly.  after rebuilding
> kvm to get debugging info, i got the following traceback:
>
> #0  0x0000003a4a200a08 in _nv007tls ()
>   from /usr/lib64/nvidia/tls/libnvidia-tls.so.285.05.09
> #1  0x00000030d4e05ad9 in __nptl_deallocate_tsd () from
> /lib64/libpthread.so.0
> #2  0x00000030d4e0674b in start_thread () from /lib64/libpthread.so.0
> #3  0x00000030d42d44bd in clone () from /lib64/libc.so.6
>
> it seems very odd that kvm should ever be touching nvidia code, but that
> seems to be the case.  i'll be rolling back to the previous nvidia
> version and hoping that fixes the problem.  should kvm ever touch this
> library?  or is something in the libnvidia-tls accidentally getting
> linked against by kvm?

Could you provide more detailed info? Which version of kmod-nvidia? el5 or el6?

If that is not the latest, can you try the current one (-285) and see
if that makes any difference?

Akemi