From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] kvm howto Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2006 17:19:23 +0200 Message-ID: <454A0C7B.4080701@qumranet.com> References: <4549F1D5.8070509@qumranet.com> <200611021527.09664.mail@earthworm.de> <454A0165.7090009@qumranet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org, Andrew Morton , linux-kernel Return-path: To: Magnus Damm In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: kvm-devel-bounces-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Errors-To: kvm-devel-bounces-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org Magnus Damm wrote: >> >> You need a newer binutils. I'm using binutils-2.16.91.0.6 (gotta love >> that version number), shipped with Fedora Core 5. > > The VT-extensions added by Intel and AMD only adds a limited number of > instructions each. If you want to be user friendly it might be a good > idea to implement these instructions as macros. I'm pretty sure > VT-extension support in Xen works with my old binutils version. > Yes, Xen uses macros. I figured a newish machine will have a newish binutils. Looks like I was wrong. I don't like uglifying the code, but if many users hit this, there won't be much of a choice. [A minor problem with macros is that you can't let gcc choose the registers for you with instructions that have operands] -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642