From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: [Patch 0/7] RealMode: Support for big real mode Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 12:34:16 +0300 Message-ID: <483E7898.2080903@qumranet.com> References: <20080527101851.201db183@frecb000711.frec.bull.fr> <483D00BE.4050802@qumranet.com> <483D7E48.9000402@us.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Guillaume Thouvenin , "kvm@vger.kernel.org" , Mohammed Gamal , "Kamble, Nitin A" , Marcelo Tosatti , laurent.vivier@bull.net, Alexander Graf To: Anthony Liguori Return-path: Received: from bzq-179-150-194.static.bezeqint.net ([212.179.150.194]:13689 "EHLO il.qumranet.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751878AbYE2JeU (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 May 2008 05:34:20 -0400 In-Reply-To: <483D7E48.9000402@us.ibm.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Anthony Liguori wrote: > Avi Kivity wrote: >> 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). > > There still seems to be an issue with this series. When running: > > sudo qemu-system-x86_64 -hda ./10gig.img -snapshot -cdrom > isos/ubuntu-7.10-server-amd64.iso -boot dc > > Occassionally, I'll get: > > kvm_run: failed entry, reason 5 > kvm_run returned -8 Occasionally, on boot, or after booting has completed? This isn't a regression if it's on boot only. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function