Re: qemu panic on OSX 10.15.6

[Christian Schoenebeck <qemu_oss@crudebyte.com>]

On Dienstag, 1. September 2020 14:45:55 CEST David Cohen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to use qemu on OSX Catalina using HVF hypervisor, but it's
> currently panic'ing upon booting Linux guest.
> 
> These are the args I'm using:
> build % ./qemu-system-x86_64 -cdrom
> ~/Downloads/archlinux-2020.08.01-x86_64.iso -smp 4 -m 4G -vga virtio
> -accel hvf -cpu host
> 
> I could trace the failure to test_pt_entry(), in this exact position:
> 
> build % git diff
> diff --git a/target/i386/hvf/x86_mmu.c b/target/i386/hvf/x86_mmu.c
> index 65d4603dbf..8f04a94cc6 100644
> --- a/target/i386/hvf/x86_mmu.c
> +++ b/target/i386/hvf/x86_mmu.c
> @@ -113,6 +113,7 @@ static bool test_pt_entry(struct CPUState *cpu,
> struct gpt_translation *pt,
>       }
> 
>       if (!pte_present(pte)) {
> +        printf("Code is failing here");
>           return false;
>       }
> 
> 
> Is anyone aware of this issue?
> 
> Br, David Cohen

CCing Cameron and Roman, just in case.

Best regards,
Christian Schoenebeck