Re: KVM Test result, kernel 81e4400.., userspace 08385e4.. , One new issue

Avi Kivity
2008-02-25T09:34:29Z

Yang, Sheng wrote:
> On Monday 25 February 2008 16:41:25 Zhao, Yunfeng wrote:
>
>> Hi, all,
>>
>> This is today's KVM test result against kvm.git
>> 81e4400b4df4e597a81c19c1161aa03c73613710 and kvm-userspace.git
>> 08385e49dcff3585f597870af67301d7659a1ecb.
>>
>> One new issue has been found in today's testing:
>> 1. fc5/fc6/rhel5u1 no-acpi up guests can't boot on pae host
>> https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1901208&group_
>> id=180599&atid=893831
>>
>
> A quick bisect shows that the problem caused by "kvm: qemu: fix host_cpuid()
> on x86_64".
>

Yeah, I just found this out the hard way (by trying to debug this --
silly me). The effects were that the "GenuineIntel" in cpuid
identification was corrupted.

I'm reverting that patch.

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