Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] KVM: Fix lockup on 32-bit intel hosts with nx disabled in the bios

From: Jeff Chua
Date: Wed Jan 31 2007 - 21:53:07 EST


On 1/31/07, Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Intel hosts, without long mode, and with nx support disabled in the bios
have an efer that is readable but not writable. This causes a lockup on
switch to guest mode (even though it should exit with reason 34 according to
the documentation).

Avi, thank you for the patch. I can confirm that this patch works on
my IBM X60s notebook. Without it, the whole PC locks up upon starting
qemu.

Thanks,
Jeff.
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