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From: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
Subject: Re: Restoring saved guest causes guest to reboot
Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 15:02:08 +0200
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On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 01:42:23PM +0200, Markus Schade wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 24 May 2011, Joerg Roedel wrote:
>
>>> I could try to also confirm this on AMD X2, but it will take me a little
>>> to setup a machine.
>>
>> Your description points to some problem in the kernel. Would be good if
>> you could try the same on your AMD X2 to find out if the problem is in
>> generic kvm code or in the vmx part.
>
> Okay, it seems to be an Intel-specific bug. I have tested multiple qemu-kvm
> (0.13, 0.14 and 0.14.1) and kernel versions (2.6.37.6, 2.6.38.6 and
> 2.6.39) on an AMD X2 6000+. Neither of them causes the guest to reboot.
> Everything works as expected.

Hmm, only 19 patches between .37 and .38 touch vmx.c. Avi, any idea which
of those patches could cause this?

Regards,

	Joerg