Re: Questions on the VMentry failure patch

[Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>]

Mohammed Gamal wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 5:24 PM, Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> wrote:
>   
>> Mohammed Gamal wrote:
>>     
>>> Hello,
>>> Guillaume Thouvenin's VMentry failure detection patch was reverted
>>> before because it broke guest rebooting. Although it turned out it
>>> didn't, it was preferred not to re-include it because it was not
>>> reliable enough. Although it is working fine with me, I want to know
>>> why it wasn't re-included? Did it cause any regressions? Is it
>>> preferrable to use an alternative mechanism to detect the VM entry
>>> failure and start real-mode emulation? If yes, What do you think it
>>> should be?
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>> Anthony Liguori reported problems with Ubuntu IIRC.  I'd like to know that
>> they are fixed, or what exactly the issue was.
>>
>>     
> Well, Ubuntu and openSuSE live CDs used to crash occasionally after
> booting, it didn't happen most of the time though. I've never
> experienced this issue after kvm-70 - with the patches the patch
> included of course. Did anyone have any issues with the patches
> included?
>   

I think they're fine.  Can you check the vmentry patch now, with 
Anthony's testcase?

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