Re: New x886-Setup code breaks HVM-XEN boot

2007-08-30 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Christian Ehrhardt wrote: > I am willing to do tests with the XEN guest and send any additional > information that might be helpful. However, I cannot change the XEN host > at this time. > Are there any messages on the xen console ("xm dmesg")? Or logs ("xm log")? What version of Xen are you

Re: New x886-Setup code breaks HVM-XEN boot

2007-08-30 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Christian Ehrhardt wrote: Note the the xm console command terminates on its own, i.e. the guest machine seems to halt and not hang somewhere. I could verify that the real mode code up to the assembly code in pmjump.S is in fact executed. The problem appears to occur while enabling protected mod

New x886-Setup code breaks HVM-XEN boot

2007-08-30 Thread Christian Ehrhardt
Hi, I am trying to boot a current 2.6 kernel as a guest under XEN in HVM mode. With linux-2.6.22.(5) as the guest this works fine but current git kernels fail very early in the boot process. The XEN host is a debian kernel with XEN enabled (2.6.18-4-xen-686). The XEN guest is a vanilla kernel fr