Re: [kvm-devel] paravirtualization & cr3-cache feature

2007-02-10 Thread Dor Laor
>hi, >Can someone briefly explain what the cr3-cache feature on intel VT >processors is and how it is used to improve performance in >paravirtualization. In short, this is a unique Intel VT feature that supposed to save vmexit on cr3 switch. The vmexit operation is quite expensive at the mome

[kvm-devel] KVM oops: killing interrupt handler

2007-02-10 Thread Jiri Slaby
Hi! My schoolmate got this while using kvm-12 on 2.6.20-rc6: http://www.fi.muni.cz/~xslaby/sklad/kvm-intel-panic/a/ Unfortunately it's only shots taken by camera. If we are able to reproduce it in 2.6.20, we'll grab netconsole output. regards, -- http://www.fi.muni.cz/~xslaby/Jiri

Re: [kvm-devel] Solaris 10 doesn't work under KVM

2007-02-10 Thread Waba
It took me a while, but I figured it out... nearly! Everything SIGILLs after the fs-root service is started. Its start method does several things, but the problematic bit is replacing the libc with an optimised version (namely, /usr/lib/libc/libc_hwcap1.so.1, which makes use of the SSE, MMX, CMOV,