Re: Booting up an old Windows 3.1 harddisk image

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On 2011-10-18 15:13, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 10/18/2011 03:07 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>>>
>>> It's probably a bug in kvm.  Try collecting a complete trace as in
>>> http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Tracing and posting it here, maybe
>>> something will jump out.
>>>
>>> Also try out -no-kvm.
>>
>> A shot from the hips: Jörg and I are just hunting down 16 bit task
>> switch issues on AMD hosts. If this problem may be related can be
>> checked by loading kvm-amd with npt=0, ie. disabling nested paging.
> 
> Do you mean that you suspect that kvm's task switch emulation is more
> accurate than the hardware?  Gleb will have a heart attack.

As it looks like (for AMD). But the last proof is yet missing - /me is
instrumenting right now.

> Another area to look at is A20 emulation, based on where the hang occurs.

Yeah, maybe. Traces may tell.

Jan

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