Re: 2.6.31.5 x86-64 KVM: 'emulation failed (pagetable) rip 7fb49335da7b 66 0f 7f 07'

Avi Kivity
2009-12-01T09:59:05Z

On 11/30/2009 11:40 PM, Nix wrote:
>
> So I started with -vga std. The emulation failed flood is unaffected
> (strangely it's not consistent: it happens about half the time). As soon
> as I issue a 'stop gdm', X exits and the emulation flood halts: but
> although there are other getties running I can't find a way to switch to
> them, as qemu has stolen Ctrl-Alt for its own purposes: so the system is
> pretty much useless (maybe I should get an sshd up and try to restart
> things from there). (I've never needed to do this before: either my
> qemus have been text mode all the time, or X with one console.)
>
> Surely switching VTs is possible: any clues?
>

'sendkey alt-ctrl-f2' from the qemu monitor.

So it looks like it is X related, and we'll have no choice other than to
emulate the instruction. Annoying, since we don't emulate sse
instructions yet.

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