From: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
To: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Cc: Gabriel Barazer <gabriel@oxeva.fr>, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
Jim Mattson <jmattson@vmware.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Virtualization Mailing List <virtualization@lists.osdl.org>,
kvm-devel <kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: 2.6.22 x86_64 : kernel initial decompression hangs on vmware
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 04:48:06 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46BBC3D6.902@qumranet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46BBA310.6060706@vmware.com>
Zachary Amsden wrote:
> Avi Kivity wrote:
>>
>> We haven't seen any issue with the 2.6.22 boot decompressor. Which
>> of the four (fs, gs, ldt, or tr) were proving problematic and why?
>
> It was tr that was affecting Workstation, since we boot through normal
> BIOS path, and only a 16-bit task was loaded at this point.
>
Ah. Maybe we didn't have an exit while we were in long mode with the
16-bit tss, so VT didn't notice the illegal combination.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-10 1:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-26 0:08 2.6.22 x86_64 : kernel initial decompression hangs on vmware Gabriel Barazer
2007-07-26 0:19 ` Zachary Amsden
2007-08-04 16:23 ` Zachary Amsden
2007-08-04 17:18 ` Gabriel Barazer
2007-08-09 20:57 ` Avi Kivity
2007-08-09 23:28 ` Zachary Amsden
2007-08-10 1:48 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
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