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From: "Jeff Chua" <jeff.chua.linux@gmail.com>
To: "Avi Kivity" <avi@qumranet.com>
Cc: kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, akpm@osdl.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] KVM: Fix lockup on 32-bit intel hosts with nx disabled in the bios
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 10:52:40 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b6a2187b0701311852i610ffc13wcc37d455ed734c86@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070131150017.020B9A0014@il.qumranet.com>

On 1/31/07, Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> wrote:
> Intel hosts, without long mode, and with nx support disabled in the bios
> have an efer that is readable but not writable.  This causes a lockup on
> switch to guest mode (even though it should exit with reason 34 according to
> the documentation).

Avi, thank you for the patch. I can confirm that this patch works on
my IBM X60s notebook. Without it, the whole PC locks up upon starting
qemu.

Thanks,
Jeff.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-02-01  2:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-31 15:00 Avi Kivity
2007-01-31 15:02 ` Avi Kivity
2007-02-01  2:52 ` Jeff Chua [this message]
2007-02-01  7:55 ` Ingo Molnar

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