>>> On Thu, Feb 1, 2007 at 7:46 AM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Avi Kivity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gregory Haskins wrote: > >> 1) Is this how illegal- op would be handled, or would that stay entirely in > the domain of the guest? >> > > An illegal opcode in the guest is handled normally by generating #UD in > the guest, without host involvement at all. >
Ah, thank you. Sounds like I need to do some more reading in the Intel docs ;) Despite my failings here, I did learn a lot about KVM/QEMU in the process so it wasnt wasted effort. > > My guess is that some horrible bug in the mmu is causing the guest to > jump to some random page and actually execute undefined opcodes. Yuk...that makese sense though. I can run sync() from other applications just fine so its probably dependent on the locations resolved by the dynamic linker. I have some ideas for a tool that might be helpful here. More to follow. Thanks for the info and quick reply, BTW. -Greg ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier. Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ kvm-devel mailing list kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel
