linux-kernel - Re: [kvm-devel] kvm causing memory corruption? ~2.6.25-rc6

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Date:	Thu, 27 Mar 2008 09:30:48 -0700
From:	Dave Hansen <dave@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Avi Kivity <avi@...ranet.com>
Cc:	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	kvm-devel <kvm-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [kvm-devel] kvm causing memory corruption?  ~2.6.25-rc6

On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 17:53 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> Dave Hansen wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 11:36 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> >   
> >> I dug out my i386 install and tried it.  Doesn't reproduce for me on 
> >> either kvm.git or -rc7.
> >>
> >> Do you have a working setup that we can bisect?
> >>     
> > I don't really have a working revision to bisect against.  I'm not sure
> > that it ever worked.  
> 
> I'm fairly sure Windows works on kvm...

Oh, I didn't mean to imply that Windows doesn't work, just that the
particular perverted way in which I'm poking it may have never
worked. :)

> How did you generate the image?

The original install was done in a kqemu-accelerated host. 

> > It's also on my actual laptop, so it's a bit of a
> > pain to get any other work done while I'm bisecting. :)
> >
> > I'll move the Windows image over to another machine today and see if I
> > can reproduce elsewhere.  I'll also check some older versions of KVM to
> > see if any of those work.  If I do that, should I keep the kvm
> > userspace, modules and BIOSes all synchronized from each version that I
> > test?
> >   
> 
> You can keep the userspace (qemu + bios) fixed and change the kernel, or 
> vice versa.
> 
-- Dave

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