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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: Vmware crashes if compress/misc.c scrolls?
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 17:25:57 -0700
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Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> 
> You mean "is a real failure"?  Or "is triggered by particular
> instructions"?  It seems profoundly bogus (as in, surely DOS or
> something reads the framebuffer).
> 

A real failure (although only triggered from some variant of protected
mode -- paging off?)

	-hpa