Re: Solaris 10 U2 installation failure

[Avi Kivity <avi-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>]

Parag Warudkar wrote:
> Avi Kivity <avi@...> writes:
>
>   
>> Parag Warudkar wrote:
>>     
>>> And this in dmesg -
>>> kvm_handle_exit: unexpected, valid vectoring info 
>>> and exit reason is 0x9
>>>
>>>       
>> Exit 9 is a hardware task switch, which is not supported by vmx.  It's 
>> unlikely solaris is using it; probably some other failure before caused 
>> it to take the wrong route.
>>
>>     
>
> Yeah something obviously went wrong when the installation got stuck earlier. 
> One thing which is good is that the installation seems to get stuck at the 
> same place every time.
>
> Is there a way to know where it is getting stuck down under 
> in the bowels of KVM?
>
>   

You can add a signal handler to qemu/kvm-qemu.c to call kvm_get_regs() 
and print them out.

 From the rip you can see what Solaris is doing (assuming you have debug 
symbols).

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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function


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