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From: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Subject: Re: [Patch 0/7] RealMode: Support for big real mode
Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 09:50:38 +0300
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Guillaume Thouvenin wrote:
> Hello, 
>
>   Those patches allow to boot OpenSuse-10.3. The problem with
> Opensuse 10.3 is it uses a version of gfxboot that reads SS after
> switching from real to protected mode, where SS contains an invalid
> value, which VMX does not allow.
>   

Thanks, applied all. I dropped vcpu_sregs_table after all, in favor of 
1:1 mapping of VCPU_SREG_* to the opcode encoding (similar to the 
general purpose registers).

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