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From: Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan@kaltenbrunner.cc>
Subject: Re: VMX status report 10680:f692a0a476c5
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 18:01:32 +0200
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To: "Zheng, Jeff" <jeff.zheng@intel.com>
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Zheng, Jeff wrote:
>  
> We have tested the latest xen on VT platform with Intel 915/E8500
> chipset. 
> 
> 
> Here is the test summary:
>  
> 
> Issues:
> 
> - Cannot boot Four VMX at same time on IA32 host
> - Cannot boot Windows XP SP1/SP2 on IA32e host
> - Create IA32-PAE VMX on IA32e host will make VMX kernel panic
> - Create IA32 VMX on IA32e host will make VMX hang
> - Destroying VMX with 4G memory may make xend hang on IA-32e

FYI: on my Pentium D920 box with a 64bit hypervisor WinXP SP2 is broken
on -unstable for a while now:

(XEN) ff, This opcode isn't handled yet!
(XEN) handle_mmio: failed to decode instruction
(XEN) mmio opcode: va 0xb8216, gpa 0xb8216, len 3: ff 77 16
(XEN) domain_crash_sync called from platform.c:857
(XEN) Domain 6 (vcpu#0) crashed on cpu#0:
(XEN) ----[ Xen-3.0-unstable    Not tainted ]----
(XEN) CPU:    0
(XEN) RIP:    c000:[<0000000000003c09>]
(XEN) RFLAGS: 0000000000033006   CONTEXT: hvm
(XEN) rax: 00000000000f0060   rbx: 0000000000000200   rcx: 00000000000f0005
(XEN) rdx: 0000000000000000   rsi: 0000000000000000   rdi: 00000000000d0500
(XEN) rbp: 00000000000dffcc   rsp: 000000000000ffb8   r8:  0000000000000000
(XEN) r9:  0000000000000000   r10: 0000000000000000   r11: 0000000000000000
(XEN) r12: 0000000000000000   r13: 0000000000000000   r14: 0000000000000000
(XEN) r15: 0000000000000000   cr0: 0000000000050032   cr3: 00000000183b8000
(XEN) ds: b800   es: 0000   fs: 0010   gs: 0010   ss: 0000   cs: c000

the very same issue affects my Fedora Core 5 VMX domain.


Stefan