Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2010 01:22:02 +0100 From: Luke Marsden <luke@hybrid-logic.co.uk> To: Jung-uk Kim <jkim@FreeBSD.org> Cc: support@elastichosts.com, team@hybrid-logic.co.uk, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Problem running 8.1R on KVM with AMD hosts Message-ID: <1285892522.21063.1437.camel@pow> In-Reply-To: <201009301855.51841.jkim@FreeBSD.org> References: <1285587910.31122.633.camel@pow> <1285601367.31122.909.camel@pow> <1285873071.21063.786.camel@pow> <201009301855.51841.jkim@FreeBSD.org>
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On Thu, 2010-09-30 at 18:55 -0400, Jung-uk Kim wrote: > It seems MCA capability is advertised by the CPUID translator but > writing to the MSRs causes GPF. In other words, it seems like a CPU > emulator bug. A simple workaround is 'set hw.mca.enabled=0' from the > loader prompt. If it works, add hw.mca.enabled="0" > in /boot/loader.conf to make it permanent. MCA does not make any > sense in emulation any way. Awesome, this allows us to boot 8.1R on Linux KVM with AMD hardware! Thank you very much. This has just doubled our number of availability zones. -- Best Regards, Luke Marsden Hybrid Logic Ltd. Web: http://www.hybrid-cluster.com/ Hybrid Web Cluster - cloud web hosting based on FreeBSD and ZFS Mobile: +447791750420
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