On 2011-03-02 11:56, Alon Levy wrote: > On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 09:22:35AM +0100, Jan Kiszka wrote: >> On 2011-03-01 13:58, Alon Levy wrote: >>> On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 08:11:26PM +0100, Jan Kiszka wrote: >>>> On 2011-02-27 20:03, Alon Levy wrote: >>>>> On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 01:29:01PM +0100, Jan Kiszka wrote: >>>>>> On 2011-02-26 12:43, xming wrote: >>>>>>> When trying to start X (and it loads qxl driver) the kvm process just crashes. >>>>> >>>>> This is fixed by Gerd's attached patch (taken from rhel repository, don't know >>>>> why it wasn't pushed to qemu-kvm upstream). I'll send it to kvm list as well (separate email). >>>> >>>> Patch looks OK on first glance, but the changelog is misleading: This >>>> was broken for _both_ trees, but upstream didn't detect the bug. >>> >>> So I didn't test with qemu not having this patch, but according to the discussion in the >>> launchpad bug the problem only happens with qemu-kvm. This doesn't rule out it being a >>> bug, perhaps it is just triggered much less frequently I guess. >> >> Again: qemu-kvm has the instrumentation to detect the bug, qemu is >> lacking this, but both trees will break subtly if cpu_current_env is not >> properly restored. > > ok, so what do you want to be done further before this patch is applied? The patch posted to qemu-devel just requires a changelog that correctly reflects what it addresses (and where). Jan
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