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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Erik van der Kouwe <vdkouwe@cs.vu.nl>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: MINIX 3.1.6 works in QEMU-0.12.3 only with KVM disabled
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:03:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B977C7D.9090008@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B9773C4.7010001@cs.vu.nl>

On 03/10/2010 12:26 PM, Erik van der Kouwe wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I've submitted this bug report a week ago:
> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2962575&group_id=180599&atid=893831 
>
>
> I was wondering if work has already been done on this (maybe the 
> problem was already known) and whether patches to fix this and/or 
> workarounds are known.
>

MINIX is using big real mode which is currently not well supported by 
kvm on Intel hardware:

> (qemu) info registers
> EAX=00000010 EBX=00000009 ECX=49200000 EDX=0000a796
> ESI=00000200 EDI=49200200 EBP=00000009 ESP=0000a762
> EIP=0000f4a7 EFL=00023002 [-------] CPL=3 II=0 A20=1 SMM=0 HLT=0
> ES =0000 00000000 0000ffff 0000f300
> CS =f000 000f0000 0000ffff 0000f300
> SS =9492 00094920 0000ffff 0000f300
> DS =97ce 00097cec 0000ffff 0000f300

A ds.base of 0x97cec cannot be translated to a real mode segment.

There is some work to get this to work, but it is proceeding really 
slowly.  It should work on AMD hardware though.

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function


      reply	other threads:[~2010-03-10 11:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-10 10:26 MINIX 3.1.6 works in QEMU-0.12.3 only with KVM disabled Erik van der Kouwe
2010-03-10 11:03 ` Avi Kivity [this message]

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