H. Peter Anvin wrote: > The current test branch of Syslinux does PM->RM transition via a stub > which can be located in high memory. This is correct and valid (x86 > CPUs rely on this to boot): after clearing CR0.PE, CS.base retains its > previous value until CS is reloaded by a far JMP (which in this case is > the very next instruction). Some trivial research later... It looks like KVM will simply crash when it runs into a real-mode state it can't approximate with V86 mode. I guess I had the failed notion that it would kick back such "impossible" states to Qemu. -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
