Re: Solaris 10 doesn't work under KVM

Cyril Plisko
2007-02-08T14:58:54Z

On 2/8/07, Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel-5C7GfCeVMHo@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 02:21:55PM +0200, Avi Kivity 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?
> >
> > While the host is 64-bit, the guest is 32 in this case IIRC.
>
> Yeah, the guest is running in 32bit PAE when the SIGILLs happen.

Joerg,

you may want to boot Solaris with "-m verbose" flag to see which
of the SMF services fails.

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> Joerg
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> Joerg Roedel
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Regards,
Cyril