From: Joerg Roedel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This lets SVM ignore writes of the value 0 to the performance counter control registers. Thus enabling them will still fail in the guest, but a write of 0 which keeps them disabled is accepted. This is required to boot Windows Vista 64bit.
[avi: avoid fall-thru in switch statement] Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Markus Rechberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/kvm/svm.c | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/kvm/svm.c b/drivers/kvm/svm.c index 9f8564a..839a75f 100644 --- a/drivers/kvm/svm.c +++ b/drivers/kvm/svm.c @@ -1155,7 +1155,20 @@ static int svm_set_msr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, unsigned ecx, u64 data) case MSR_IA32_SYSENTER_ESP: svm->vmcb->save.sysenter_esp = data; break; + case MSR_K7_EVNTSEL0: + case MSR_K7_EVNTSEL1: + case MSR_K7_EVNTSEL2: + case MSR_K7_EVNTSEL3: + /* + * only support writing 0 to the performance counters for now + * to make Windows happy. Should be replaced by a real + * performance counter emulation later. + */ + if (data != 0) + goto unhandled; + break; default: + unhandled: return kvm_set_msr_common(vcpu, ecx, data); } return 0; -- 1.5.3.7 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ kvm-devel mailing list kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel