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From: Richard Simpson <rs1002@huskydog.org.uk>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Setting nx bit in virtual CPU
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2010 23:31:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BBBB63B.60007@huskydog.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BB99F03.3020208@redhat.com>

On 05/04/10 09:27, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 04/03/2010 12:07 AM, Richard Simpson wrote:
>> Nope, both Kernels are 64 bit.
>>
>> uname -a Host: Linux gordon 2.6.27-gentoo-r8 #5 Sat Mar 14 18:01:59 GMT
>> 2009 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
>>
>> uname -a Guest: Linux andrew 2.6.28-hardened-r9 #4 Mon Jan 18 22:39:31
>> GMT 2010 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
>>
>> As you can see, both kernels are a little old, and I have been wondering
>> if that might be part of the problem.  The Guest one is old because that
>> is the latest stable hardened version in Gentoo.  The host one is old
>> because of:
>>    
> 
> 2.6.27 should be plenty fine for nx.  Really the important bit is that
> the host kernel has nx enabled.  Can you check if that is so?
> 
Umm, could you give me a clue about how to do that.  It is some time
since I configured the host kernel, but I do have a /proc/config.gz.
Could I check by looking in that?

Thanks

  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-06 22:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-29 22:16 Setting nx bit in virtual CPU Richard Simpson
2010-03-30  2:12 ` Chris Wright
2010-03-30 20:42   ` Richard Simpson
2010-04-01  8:43 ` Avi Kivity
2010-04-02 21:07   ` Richard Simpson
2010-04-05  8:27     ` Avi Kivity
2010-04-06 22:31       ` Richard Simpson [this message]
2010-04-07  5:39         ` Avi Kivity
2010-04-07 12:10           ` Richard Simpson
2010-04-07 12:23             ` Avi Kivity
2010-04-07 20:38               ` Richard Simpson
2010-04-07 20:48                 ` Avi Kivity
2010-04-07 23:13                   ` Richard Simpson
2010-04-08  7:23                     ` Avi Kivity
2010-04-08 23:55                       ` Richard Simpson
2010-04-10 19:34                         ` Avi Kivity
2010-04-08  8:52                   ` Andre Przywara
2010-04-08 21:23                     ` Richard Simpson
2010-04-09 23:45                       ` Andre Przywara
2010-04-12 21:15                         ` Richard Simpson

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