Re: 2.6.22 x86_64 : kernel initial decompression hangs on vmware

2007-08-09 Thread Avi Kivity
Zachary Amsden wrote: Avi Kivity wrote: We haven't seen any issue with the 2.6.22 boot decompressor. Which of the four (fs, gs, ldt, or tr) were proving problematic and why? It was tr that was affecting Workstation, since we boot through normal BIOS path, and only a 16-bit task was loaded

Re: 2.6.22 x86_64 : kernel initial decompression hangs on vmware

2007-08-09 Thread Zachary Amsden
Avi Kivity wrote: We haven't seen any issue with the 2.6.22 boot decompressor. Which of the four (fs, gs, ldt, or tr) were proving problematic and why? It was tr that was affecting Workstation, since we boot through normal BIOS path, and only a 16-bit task was loaded at this point. Just t

Re: 2.6.22 x86_64 : kernel initial decompression hangs on vmware

2007-08-09 Thread Avi Kivity
Zachary Amsden wrote: Since I was just involved in the boot decompressor for another bug, I took a look at this. 2.6.22 switches it to be 64-bit code. VT is very picky about what state it can run in. Not using VT on Intel 64-bit hardware cripples performance, running at far below normal s

Re: 2.6.22 x86_64 : kernel initial decompression hangs on vmware

2007-08-04 Thread Gabriel Barazer
On 08/04/2007 6:23:00 PM +0200, Zachary Amsden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Gabriel Barazer wrote: Hi, After upgrading kernel to 2.6.22 on a Vmware workstation guest version 5.5 and 6 , the kernel decompression stage ("Decompressing Linux...") is hanging for a very long time (~5 minutes) before

Re: 2.6.22 x86_64 : kernel initial decompression hangs on vmware

2007-08-04 Thread Zachary Amsden
Gabriel Barazer wrote: Hi, After upgrading kernel to 2.6.22 on a Vmware workstation guest version 5.5 and 6 , the kernel decompression stage ("Decompressing Linux...") is hanging for a very long time (~5 minutes) before finally succeeding (displaying "done.\nBooting the kernel.\n"). During t

Re: 2.6.22 x86_64 : kernel initial decompression hangs on vmware

2007-07-25 Thread Zachary Amsden
Gabriel Barazer wrote: Hi, After upgrading kernel to 2.6.22 on a Vmware workstation guest version 5.5 and 6 , the kernel decompression stage ("Decompressing Linux...") is hanging for a very long time (~5 minutes) before finally succeeding (displaying "done.\nBooting the kernel.\n"). During t

2.6.22 x86_64 : kernel initial decompression hangs on vmware

2007-07-25 Thread Gabriel Barazer
Hi, After upgrading kernel to 2.6.22 on a Vmware workstation guest version 5.5 and 6 , the kernel decompression stage ("Decompressing Linux...") is hanging for a very long time (~5 minutes) before finally succeeding (displaying "done.\nBooting the kernel.\n"). During this time, the VM proces