From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Riepe Subject: Re: Plan 9 install problems Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 19:02:40 +0100 Message-ID: <458434C0.5010800@mr511.de> References: <4583A71D.50300@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 Return-path: To: Avi Kivity In-Reply-To: <4583A71D.50300-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org> 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 Hi! Avi Kivity wrote: > The way to fix is to add handling to {svm,vmx}_get_msr() for msr 1 (and > any other pointless msrs the guest reads or writes). From a cursory > reading of the machine check docs, returning 0 should be fine for msr 1. Yep. But that doesn't help with Plan9 (just checked it). The installer fails at VM entry later because it tries to use a "big" code segment (limit = 0xffffffff). The same is true for OpenSolaris (cs limit = 0xfffff), by the way. -- Michael "Tired" Riepe X-Tired: Each morning I get up I die a little ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV