From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Steven Ball <hamster@trutechlaser.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Tuning guide, -cpu host crashes hosted VM
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:46:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B29EFE7.4050103@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <99114AD9-FB8B-439F-B431-FCDDCF0AB32A@trutechlaser.com>
On 12/16/2009 12:33 AM, Steven Ball wrote:
> Howdy all,
>
> I am attempting to evaluate a few different virtualization platforms. I've been going about this by installing a really basic XP host, and running some benchmarks. I realize these are synthetic benchmarks, but it at least allows me to see how the virtualization platforms differ.
>
> I attempted to do some tuning with KVM as per the tuning guide, using -cpu host, and as soon as my benchmarking program under XP uses a sse instruction, I get a blue screen crash and reboot.
>
Any idea what the instruction is? You can set Windows to collect a
crash dump, then use windbg to examine the dump and it will point out
the offending instruction.
Alternatively, post a pointer to the application and someone may
reproduce it some day.
--
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
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2009-12-15 22:33 Tuning guide, -cpu host crashes hosted VM Steven Ball
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