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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
To: Guillaume Thouvenin <guillaume.thouvenin@ext.bull.net>
Cc: kvm-devel <kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>, bk@suse.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gfxboot VMX workaround v2
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2008 07:14:13 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47FB6195.1050105@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080408093035.4f184e60@frecb000711.frec.bull.fr>

Guillaume Thouvenin wrote:
> On Mon, 07 Apr 2008 11:05:06 -0500
> Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws> wrote:
>
>   
>> Perhaps a viable way to fix this upstream would be to catch the vmentry 
>> failure, look to see if SS.CPL != CS.CPL, and if so, invoke 
>> x86_emulate() in a loop until SS.CPL == CS.CPL.
>>     
>
> I tried this solution some time ago but unfortunately x86_emulate()
> failed. I suspected a problem with guest EIP that could different
> between the vmentry catch and the emulation. I will rebase my patch and
> post them on the mailing list.
>   

x86 emulate is missing support for jmp far which is used to switch into 
protected mode.  It just needs to be added.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Regards,
> Guillaume
>   


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  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-08 12:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-07 13:12 [PATCH] gfxboot VMX workaround v2 Alexander Graf
2008-04-07 16:05 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-04-07 16:25   ` Alexander Graf
2008-04-07 16:51     ` Anthony Liguori
2008-04-07 17:03       ` Alexander Graf
2008-04-07 17:05         ` Anthony Liguori
2008-04-08  0:05           ` Avi Kivity
2008-04-08  7:30   ` Guillaume Thouvenin
2008-04-08 12:14     ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2008-04-08 13:02       ` Guillaume Thouvenin
2008-04-08 21:56         ` Avi Kivity
2008-04-15  9:07   ` Guillaume Thouvenin
2008-04-15 13:06     ` Avi Kivity
2008-04-18 12:18       ` Guillaume Thouvenin
2008-04-18 12:55         ` Guillaume Thouvenin
2008-04-18 13:23         ` Anthony Liguori
2008-04-18 14:05           ` Guillaume Thouvenin
2008-04-18 15:25             ` Anthony Liguori
2008-04-20  7:52               ` Avi Kivity
2008-04-21 15:11               ` Guillaume Thouvenin

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