From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: [PATCH] use upstream cpuid code Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2009 17:20:11 +0300 Message-ID: <4A76F21B.8050103@redhat.com> References: <1248811515-6877-1-git-send-email-glommer@redhat.com> <4A76D0BB.3080000@redhat.com> <20090803132226.GC4374@poweredge.glommer> <4A76EEE4.5090403@redhat.com> <20090803141232.GD4374@poweredge.glommer> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org To: Glauber Costa Return-path: Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:42060 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932159AbZHCOv5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Aug 2009 10:51:57 -0400 Received: from int-mx2.corp.redhat.com (int-mx2.corp.redhat.com [172.16.27.26]) by mx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n73EpwSm018003 for ; Mon, 3 Aug 2009 10:51:58 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20090803141232.GD4374@poweredge.glommer> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 08/03/2009 05:12 PM, Glauber Costa wrote: >> If qemu-kvm with this patch works on Fedora 10 (latest kernel) and the >> equivalent opensuse and Ubuntu kernels, then we can safely remove the >> bug workaround. If not, if we apply the patch we just cause users >> needless pain. >> > Again, since it was reported to fix a problem (that did not even existed in > the first place) with Windows Vista, I don't really know why shouldn'it > it work with any of the Linux guests (since they were not affected, to begin > with) > We aim to support more than just Linux guests. I don't understand what you mean by "the problem did not even existed in the first place". I assure you it existed. > However, if you point me to a simple test case, I can definitely test it to make > sure no weird condition is taking place Install Windows Vista x64 on a host running a distro kernel. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function