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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: vga stad / vga vmware leads to KVM internal error. Suberror: 1
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 11:00:24 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B5736A8.9040600@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B573366.4000800@redhat.com>

On 01/20/2010 10:46 AM, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 01/14/2010 04:20 PM, Avi Kivity wrote:
>> On 01/14/2010 04:06 PM, Dominik Brodowski wrote:
>>>
>>>> x/5i $eip
>>> 0x00007f317ab64a7b:  movdqa %xmm0,(%rdi)
>>> 0x00007f317ab64a7f:  movdqa %xmm0,0x10(%rdi)
>>> 0x00007f317ab64a84:  movdqa %xmm0,0x20(%rdi)
>>> 0x00007f317ab64a89:  movdqa %xmm0,0x30(%rdi)
>>> 0x00007f317ab64a8e:  movdqa %xmm0,0x40(%rdi)
>>>
>>> Same values for "vga vmware" and "vga std".
>>>
>>
>> Yes - this has been reported.  We need to start emulating movdqa and 
>> a few of its friends.
>>
>
> So I have a nice patchset emulating this instruction (quite a pain, 
> since this is the first sse instruction we emulate), but it doesn't 
> help.  The guest keeps using it so the display is incredibly slow.
>
> Turns out the real problem is somewhere else -  the guest is not 
> detecting VBE properly so it is forced to use the old slow vga 
> access.  Not sure what the root cause is.

Is this with -vga std or -vga vmware?  Is this a VESA driver in the guest?

Regards,

Anthony Liguori



  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-20 17:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-14 14:11 vga std / vga vmware leads to unhandled vm exit: 0x11 Dominik Brodowski
2010-01-13 20:29 ` Dominik Brodowski
2010-01-13 21:59   ` Anthony Liguori
2010-01-13 22:18     ` vga stad / vga vmware leads to KVM internal error. Suberror: 1 Dominik Brodowski
2010-01-14 13:51       ` Avi Kivity
2010-01-14 14:06         ` Dominik Brodowski
2010-01-14 14:20           ` Avi Kivity
2010-01-20 16:46             ` Avi Kivity
2010-01-20 17:00               ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2010-01-20 17:15                 ` Avi Kivity
2010-01-22 13:52                   ` Dominik Brodowski
2010-01-24  7:27                     ` Avi Kivity
2010-01-24  9:15                       ` Dominik Brodowski

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