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Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2011 14:32:23 +0200
From: Alon Levy <alevy@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: kvm crashes with spice while loading qxl
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To: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>
Cc: xming <xmingske@gmail.com>, Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>, kvm@vger.kernel.org, qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>

On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 12:34:24PM +0100, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> On 2011-03-02 11:56, Alon Levy wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 09:22:35AM +0100, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> >> On 2011-03-01 13:58, Alon Levy wrote:
> >>> On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 08:11:26PM +0100, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> >>>> On 2011-02-27 20:03, Alon Levy wrote:
> >>>>> On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 01:29:01PM +0100, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> >>>>>> On 2011-02-26 12:43, xming wrote:
> >>>>>>> When trying to start X (and it loads qxl driver) the kvm process just crashes.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> This is fixed by Gerd's attached patch (taken from rhel repository, don't know
> >>>>> why it wasn't pushed to qemu-kvm upstream). I'll send it to kvm list as well (separate email).
> >>>>
> >>>> Patch looks OK on first glance, but the changelog is misleading: This
> >>>> was broken for _both_ trees, but upstream didn't detect the bug.
> >>>
> >>> So I didn't test with qemu not having this patch, but according to the discussion in the
> >>> launchpad bug the problem only happens with qemu-kvm. This doesn't rule out it being a
> >>> bug, perhaps it is just triggered much less frequently I guess.
> >>
> >> Again: qemu-kvm has the instrumentation to detect the bug, qemu is
> >> lacking this, but both trees will break subtly if cpu_current_env is not
> >> properly restored.
> > 
> > ok, so what do you want to be done further before this patch is applied?
> 
> The patch posted to qemu-devel just requires a changelog that correctly
> reflects what it addresses (and where).

Just sent,

Alon

> 
> Jan
>