[Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#795330: [Xen-devel] Bug#795330: Suggests noapic but doesn't support it

[Jan Beulich]

>>> On 04.09.15 at 16:13, <ijc at debian.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 2015-09-04 at 15:04 +0100, David Vrabel wrote:
>> On 04/09/15 14:38, Ian Campbell wrote:
>> > On Thu, 2015-08-13 at 00:59 +0200, Guido Günther wrote:
>> > > Package: xen-hypervisor-4.5-amd64
>> > > Severity: normal
>> > > 
>> > > Hi,
>> > > when running xen inside of kvm the hypervisor fails to set up the 
>> > > proper
>> > > IRQ routing and suggests to use noapic.
>> > 
>> > FTR, it seems to say:
>> > 
>> >     panic("IO-APIC + timer doesn't work!  Boot with 
>> > apic_verbosity=debug "
>> >           "and send a report.  Then try booting with the 'noapic' 
>> > option");
>> 
>> This is the Linux kernel making a recommendation for its command line.
> 
> I cut-n-paste that message from xen.git. Although maybe in a file which
> originates in Linux.
> 
> (So now I realised I don't really know which entity was complaining)

The reference to apic_verbosity= makes it Xen (Linux uses apic= here).

Jan