Re: Solaris 10 doesn't work under KVM

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

Joerg Roedel wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 11:27:07AM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
>   
>> Waba wrote:
>>     
>>> On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 11:42:01AM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> ok.  please keep the patch applied, and an addition:
>>>>
>>>> - change '#undef AUDIT' to '#define AUDIT' in mmu.c
>>>> - in the same file, change 'static int dbg = 1;' to 'static int dbg = 0;'
>>>> - 'echo 9 > /proc/sysrq-trigger'
>>>>
>>>> and run again.  Note that kvm will be very slow with this.  Watch dmesg 
>>>> for errors from kvm.
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> When you say 'very slow', you mean it :) I couldn't reproduce the bug in
>>> the usual fashion because the involved processes timed out and were
>>> killed by the service manager.
>>>
>>> However, simply invoking "svccfg" at the prompt seems to bring in Java or
>>> whatever heavy stuff is causing our problem, and I got a nice SIGILL
>>> this way.
>>>
>>> Sadly, nothing interesting appeared in the log:
>>>
>>> [ 8544.402301] Loglevel set to 9
>>> [ 8548.697286] cr0_wp: 1 (before)
>>> [ 9868.532303] kvm: emulating exchange as write
>>> [16785.771040] SysRq : Changing Loglevel
>>> [16785.771049] Loglevel set to 0
>>>
>>>
>>> Please tell me if there is anything else I can try out.
>>>   
>>>       
>> Can you try to isolate the process which fails?
>>
>> e.g. install with qemu, start in kvm in single user mode, and use truss 
>> or something similar.
>>     
>
> When I tried it I got a the SIGILL ever I invoked a new program. The
> first SIGILL is in the starting process which is killed then. Afterwards
> I get a shell. Every simple command there (like ls for example) caused a
> SIGILL then.
>
>   

Was this with the cr0.wp patch applied (commit 4348)?



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