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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Unable to boot guest on kernel 2.6.29.1 with kvm-84 or kvm-85
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 11:57:52 +0300
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Eino Malinen wrote:
>> Can you try a bisect?
>>     
>
> I confirm having the same trouble with kvm. Bisect with the vanilla kernel 
> gave the following result:
>
> (f438349...|BISECTING)$ git bisect log
> # bad: [8d7bff2d72660d9d60aa371ae3d1356bbf329a09] Linux 2.6.29.1
> # good: [8e0ee43bc2c3e19db56a4adaa9a9b04ce885cd84] Linux 2.6.29
> git bisect start 'v2.6.29.1' 'v2.6.29' '--' 'arch/x86/kvm/' 'virt/kvm/'
> # bad: [f438349efb8247cd0c1d453a4131b1f801bf5691] KVM: VMX: Don't allow 
> uninhibited access to EFER on i386
> git bisect bad f438349efb8247cd0c1d453a4131b1f801bf5691
>
> Are the commits splitted more precisely in kvm.git?
>   
No (and this is pretty fine granularity -- that commit is a one liner).

So 2.6.29 worked and 2.6.29.1 did not?  What is your host cpu type?  Are 
you running an i386 or x86_64 host?

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