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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?

-- 
Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-05-29 18:16 UTC|newest]

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
     [not found] ` <200705280330.19290.paran-SamgB31n2u5IcsJQ0EH25Q@public.gmane.org>
2007-05-28 20:16   ` Anthony Liguori
     [not found]     ` <465B3885.2070401-rdkfGonbjUSkNkDKm+mE6A@public.gmane.org>
2007-05-29  8:20       ` Avi Kivity
     [not found]         ` <465BE236.4020805-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
2007-05-29 16:13           ` Huang2, Wei
     [not found]             ` <7D748C767B7FA541A8AC5504A4C89A2302FEBD35-SXV0rU3j2e+jL8BtgrxzBQC/G2K4zDHf@public.gmane.org>
2007-05-29 18:16               ` Avi Kivity [this message]
     [not found]                 ` <465C6E0A.6030008-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
2007-05-29 18:55                   ` Huang2, Wei
     [not found]                     ` <7D748C767B7FA541A8AC5504A4C89A2302FEBE97-SXV0rU3j2e+jL8BtgrxzBQC/G2K4zDHf@public.gmane.org>
2007-05-30  4:56                       ` Avi Kivity
2007-05-31 12:21                       ` Pär Andersson
     [not found]                         ` <465FB4D4.6030509@amd.com>
     [not found]                           ` <465FB4D4.6030509-5C7GfCeVMHo@public.gmane.org>
2007-06-01 12:59                             ` Pär Andersson

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