From: Avi Kivity <avi-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
To: "Huang2, Wei" <Wei.Huang2-5C7GfCeVMHo@public.gmane.org>
Cc: kvm-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org,
"Pär Andersson" <paran-SamgB31n2u5IcsJQ0EH25Q@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: Kernel panic when loading kvm-amd
Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 21:16:42 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <465C6E0A.6030008@qumranet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7D748C767B7FA541A8AC5504A4C89A2302FEBD35-SXV0rU3j2e+jL8BtgrxzBQC/G2K4zDHf@public.gmane.org>
Huang2, Wei wrote:
> SVM looks available on your machine. If possible, could you provide dmidecode information (type "dmidecode") for further verification? I know that some vendors disabled SVM feature in BIOS last year. But this was pretty rare. Maybe you can check whether BIOS has an option for SVM.
>
Is there a way to detect whether the bios has disabled svm? If not, is
trapping the #GP on wrmsr(EFER) a good way to do it?
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Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-28 1:29 Kernel panic when loading kvm-amd Pär Andersson
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2007-05-28 20:16 ` Anthony Liguori
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2007-05-29 8:20 ` Avi Kivity
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2007-05-29 16:13 ` Huang2, Wei
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2007-05-29 18:16 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
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2007-05-29 18:55 ` Huang2, Wei
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2007-05-30 4:56 ` Avi Kivity
2007-05-31 12:21 ` Pär Andersson
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[not found] ` <465FB4D4.6030509-5C7GfCeVMHo@public.gmane.org>
2007-06-01 12:59 ` Pär Andersson
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