Re: [Qemu-devel] Pentium D with guest Ubuntu 6.06 server kernel panic with kqemu

["R. Armiento" <reply-2006@armiento.net>]

R. Armiento wrote:
>> The error looks very similar to the one reported here:
>>   http://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg03964.html
>> But I believe that reported issue should not appear in recent qemu, 
>> since SSE3 is now emulated (right?). (At least the patch in the end of 
>> that thread seems to already be included in the sources?)

Joachim Henke wrote:
> Yes, this patch was included, but it doesn't solve that problem. As this 
> message 
> [http://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg03972.html] 
> states, the 'monitor' and the 'mwait' instructions have not been added. 
> But your guest OS assumes them to be present, because your host cpu has 
> the MONITOR flag set in CPUID.

I see; so the issue I reported is in fact the exact same issue as the 
one reported in march. And the situation is that we are waiting for some 
kind soul to implement the monitor/mwait instructions (and according to 
Fabrice in that thread "doing nops should suffice").

(While I am able to boot with idle=halt, I'm still worried that some 
other software than Linux idle function will happen to also use the 
wrongly declared MONITOR feautre and crash the emulated host...)

Best regards,
Rickard