APIC error on CPU1: 80(00)

APIC error on CPU1: 80(00)

[Emmanuel Fuste]

Hello,

I just try vmware on my computer (old bi-pentium 233) and when I start
the virtual machine, I get constant flood of :

....
APIC error on CPU1: 80(00)
APIC error on CPU1: 80(00)
APIC error on CPU1: 80(00)
APIC error on CPU1: 80(00)
APIC error on CPU1: 80(00)
APIC error on CPU1: 80(00)
APIC error on CPU1: 80(00)
....

(and the machine became very slow)

cat /proc/interrupts 
           CPU0       CPU1       
  0:     398166     411063    IO-APIC-edge  timer
  1:       1853       1831    IO-APIC-edge  keyboard
  2:          0          0          XT-PIC  cascade
  4:          3          0    IO-APIC-edge  serial
  5:       1018        914    IO-APIC-edge  SoundBlaster
  6:         67         69    IO-APIC-edge  floppy
  8:     773092     836563    IO-APIC-edge  rtc
 12:     109641     113068    IO-APIC-edge  PS/2 Mouse
 19:      94973      95335   IO-APIC-level  aic7xxx, usb-uhci, PCnet/PCI
79C970
NMI:          0          0 
LOC:     809172     809162 
ERR:   16097271
MIS:          0

reading the sources tel me thet 80 is illegal register address.

It is a vmware bug ? or a kernel bug?

My kernel is 2.4.20-rc1.

Thanks.


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Emmanuel Fuste <e.fuste@wanadoo.fr>