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From: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: John Stoffel <john@stoffel.org>,
	"kvm@vger.kernel.org" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Booting up an old Windows 3.1 harddisk image
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 15:21:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E9D7D6D.8050308@siemens.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E9D7B83.4020402@redhat.com>

On 2011-10-18 15:13, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 10/18/2011 03:07 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>>>
>>> It's probably a bug in kvm.  Try collecting a complete trace as in
>>> http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Tracing and posting it here, maybe
>>> something will jump out.
>>>
>>> Also try out -no-kvm.
>>
>> A shot from the hips: Jörg and I are just hunting down 16 bit task
>> switch issues on AMD hosts. If this problem may be related can be
>> checked by loading kvm-amd with npt=0, ie. disabling nested paging.
> 
> Do you mean that you suspect that kvm's task switch emulation is more
> accurate than the hardware?  Gleb will have a heart attack.

As it looks like (for AMD). But the last proof is yet missing - /me is
instrumenting right now.

> Another area to look at is A20 emulation, based on where the hang occurs.

Yeah, maybe. Traces may tell.

Jan

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-18 13:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-18  0:59 Booting up an old Windows 3.1 harddisk image John Stoffel
2011-10-18 10:42 ` Avi Kivity
2011-10-18 13:07   ` Jan Kiszka
2011-10-18 13:13     ` Avi Kivity
2011-10-18 13:21       ` Jan Kiszka [this message]
2011-10-18 13:08   ` John Stoffel
2011-10-18 13:11     ` Avi Kivity
2011-10-18 17:08     ` John Stoffel
2011-10-18 17:31       ` Avi Kivity
2011-10-19  2:02         ` Jun Koi
2011-10-19  2:06           ` Jun Koi
2011-10-19 13:55         ` John Stoffel

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