From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Christian Ehrhardt <lk@c--e.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Boot failures on Qemu due to P6_NOPS
Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2008 11:01:58 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48725A16.6010307@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080707172334.GH1009@lisa.in-ulm.de>
Christian Ehrhardt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> this might well be a bug in Qemu but even then, it would be nice if the
> linux kernel could do a work around.
>
It is a Qemu bug. Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 have it too.
One *major* problems with virtualizers is that they uniformly use an
existing CPU identifier, even though they might have their own sets of
bugs. This makes it much harder to work around bugs in them.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-07 18:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-07 17:23 Boot failures on Qemu due to P6_NOPS Christian Ehrhardt
2008-07-07 17:55 ` Sebastian Herbszt
2008-07-07 18:01 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2008-08-21 16:07 ` Marc Haber
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