Re: bug concering Solaris ?

[Avi Kivity <avi-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>]

Adrian Lambeck wrote:
> I have question concerning solaris as a guest system. Windows XP and 
> Linux are up and running without problems.
> Now I would like to us Solaris10 for x86 too. I downloaded the ISO image 
> and validated the MD5 checksum but when I start QEMU with "boot d" and 
> -cdrom="location of the DVD image", QEMU dies with the following 
> exception right after trying to access the cdrom drive:
>
> exception 6 (0)
> rax 0000000000180000 rbx 0000000000008d06 rcx 00000000f000ff53 rdx 
> 0000000000000000
> rsi 0000000000000000 rdi 0000000000000000 rsp 000000000005087e rbp 
> 0000000000000000
> r8  0000000000000000 r9  0000000000000000 r10 0000000000000000 r11 
> 0000000000000000
> r12 0000000000000000 r13 0000000000000000 r14 0000000000000000 r15 
> 0000000000000000
> rip 0000000000000003 rflags 00233002
> cs 0000 (00000000/0000ffff p 1 dpl 3 db 0 s 1 type 3 l 0 g 0 avl 0)
> ds 0000 (00000000/0000ffff p 1 dpl 3 db 0 s 1 type 3 l 0 g 0 avl 0)
> es 0000 (00000000/0000ffff p 1 dpl 3 db 0 s 1 type 3 l 0 g 0 avl 0)
> ss 0000 (00000000/0000ffff p 1 dpl 3 db 0 s 1 type 3 l 0 g 0 avl 0)
> fs 0000 (00000000/0000ffff p 1 dpl 3 db 0 s 1 type 3 l 0 g 0 avl 0)
> gs 0000 (00000000/0000ffff p 1 dpl 3 db 0 s 1 type 3 l 0 g 0 avl 0)
> tr 0028 (20850000/00002088 p 1 dpl 0 db 0 s 0 type b l 0 g 0 avl 0)
> ldt 0000 (00000000/0000ffff p 1 dpl 0 db 0 s 0 type 2 l 0 g 0 avl 0)
> gdt 8548/40
> idt 1693b8/7ff
> cr0 60000010 cr2 0 cr3 189000 cr4 90 cr8 0 efer 0
> code: f0 d0 8b 00 00 53 ff 00 f0 53 ff 00 f0 53 ff 00 f0 53 ff 00 f0 53 
> ff 00 f0 53 ff 00 f0 a5
> qemu exited: vdeq quits
>
>
> Are there any ideas how this issue can be resolved?
> I tried the same setup with the official qemu-0.9 which worked without 
> problems.
>   

This looks like the real mode problem (see 
http://kvm.qumranet.com/kvmwiki/Intel_Real_Mode_Emulation_Problems) (are 
you on an Intel cpu?), although the symptoms aren't exactly the usual ones.

I suggest installing with -no-kvm, and then booting the newly installed 
guest with kvm.

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