Re: [kvm-devel] Plan 9 install problems

2006-12-17 Thread Avi Kivity
Michael Riepe wrote: > OpenSolaris runs on Intel with a simple modification: force the CS limit > to 0x in real mode (I wonder why that didn't happen already). > > Plan9, on the other hand, seems to execute code outside the 64K range. > With cs-limit.patch, it dies at RIP 0x100212. I'm afraid w

Re: [kvm-devel] Plan 9 install problems

2006-12-17 Thread Michael Riepe
Hi there! Avi Kivity wrote: > Michael Riepe wrote: > >> Hi! >> >> Avi Kivity wrote: >> >> >> >>> The way to fix is to add handling to {svm,vmx}_get_msr() for msr 1 >>> (and any other pointless msrs the guest reads or writes). From a >>> cursory reading of the machine check docs, returning 0 sh

Re: [kvm-devel] Plan 9 install problems

2006-12-17 Thread Avi Kivity
Michael Riepe wrote: > Hi! > > Avi Kivity wrote: > > >> The way to fix is to add handling to {svm,vmx}_get_msr() for msr 1 (and >> any other pointless msrs the guest reads or writes). From a cursory >> reading of the machine check docs, returning 0 should be fine for msr 1. >> > > Yep. >

Re: [kvm-devel] Plan 9 install problems

2006-12-16 Thread Michael Riepe
Hi! Avi Kivity wrote: > The way to fix is to add handling to {svm,vmx}_get_msr() for msr 1 (and > any other pointless msrs the guest reads or writes). From a cursory > reading of the machine check docs, returning 0 should be fine for msr 1. Yep. But that doesn't help with Plan9 (just checked

Re: [kvm-devel] Plan 9 install problems

2006-12-15 Thread Avi Kivity
James Morris wrote: > I just tried installing Plan 9 from the current CD ISO (see > http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/download.html) under KVM and didn't get > very far. > > It boots, then hangs after some initialization. Screenshot of the guest > at this point: http://namei.org/images/p9-kvm.pn

[kvm-devel] Plan 9 install problems

2006-12-15 Thread James Morris
I just tried installing Plan 9 from the current CD ISO (see http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/download.html) under KVM and didn't get very far. It boots, then hangs after some initialization. Screenshot of the guest at this point: http://namei.org/images/p9-kvm.png On the host, the startup mes