Re: Solaris 10 doesn't work under KVM

Avi Kivity
2007-02-08T12:21:55Z

Cyril Plisko wrote:
>>
>> Can this be sysenter support? i.e. is sysenter supported on opteron but
>> not on athlon x2?
>
>
> AFAIK, on both Opteron an Athlon X2 Solaris uses syscall, rather than
> sysenter.
> The catch here is that it starts with the least optimized libc at
> boot, and at some
> point SMF uses moe(1) to find out most suitable version of libc and
> lofs-mount it
> on top of the original. From this point on AMD machine will use syscall.
>

Is this true on 32-bit solaris as well?

While the host is 64-bit, the guest is 32 in this case IIRC.

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