On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 04:31:44PM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote: > On Thu, 2008-03-20 at 15:52 +0900, Simon Horman wrote: > > Hi, > > > > here is another spin of the kexec EFI patches. > > Hi Simon, > > I'm afraid to say it, but I've seen another issue :( I accidentally > trashed my win2k3 guest, so as part of testing this set I started > reinstalling the guest. Meanwhile I thought I'd test win2k8... boom, > the machine silently MCAs. The win2k3 guest is early on, at the point > of loading the "Windows Executive", the win2k8 box is just after logging > in. I don't know if it's an actual interaction between the two guests, > but it's surprisingly easy to reproduce on my system. It only seems to > occur with the kexec series loaded. > > An additional scary aspect is that after one of the MCAs, EFI complained > that my RTC was invalid and set it back to an initial value. I've only > seen that once, but certainly plants the idea that maybe an HVM guest > got to it somehow. > > FWIW, I tried to reproduce these same conditions using the current > ia64/xen-unstable.hg tree and ran through a few times w/o hitting any > problems. I'll see if I can better characterize the issue, but you > might try something similar. Thanks,
Hi Alex, bother :-( Though its good that you found this now rather than later :-) I'll talk with Yamahata-san about running some similar tests. -- Horms _______________________________________________ Xen-ia64-devel mailing list Xen-ia64-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-ia64-devel
