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Hi

On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 8:48 AM, David Barrett <dbarrett@quinthar.com> wrote:
> Following up on this, I created a brand-new WinXP image from scratch (on
>  my Ubuntu box), uploaded to my headless Fedora box, and it still has the
>   exact same crash:
>
>
>  qemu: warning: error while loading state for instance 0x0 of device 'ram'
>  qemu: fatal: triple fault
>
>  So is it safe to say that QEMU VM snapshots are not transferable between
>  hosts?

I think something is "hard coded"....but I still can't figure it out.
It could be memory layout, registers state, side effect of memory
protection such as exec shield or things like SELinux.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_fault makes me wonder, does this
bug tell something about improper restore of IDT?

regards,

Mulyadi.