Re: Solaris 10 doesn't work under KVM

Cyril Plisko
2007-02-08T13:45:23Z

On 2/8/07, Avi Kivity <avi-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 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?
>

It is true _only_ for 32 bit. 64 bit userland doesn't have to check these things
as syscall available by virtue of the fact.

> While the host is 64-bit, the guest is 32 in this case IIRC.
>
> --
> Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.
>
>

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Regards,
Cyril