Re: Solaris 10 doesn't work under KVM

Joerg Roedel
2007-02-08T14:45:30Z

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

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Joerg Roedel
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