From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Oct 21 21:26:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA3A837B401 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 21:26:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from 002.216-123-229-0.interbaun.com (002.216-123-229-0.interbaun.com [216.123.229.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52B4943E3B for ; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 21:26:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from soralx@cydem.zp.ua) Received: from 254.216-123-229-0.interbaun.com ([192.168.0.3]) by 002.216-123-229-0.interbaun.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g9M4QXv00547; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 22:26:39 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from soralx@cydem.zp.ua) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="koi8-r" From: To: mjoyner2@hq.dyns.cx Subject: Re: vmware2 and simd instructions Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 22:25:01 -0600 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.4] References: <3DAE1642.1030208@hq.dyns.cx> <200210190138.53850.soralx@cydem.zp.ua> <3DB21F6D.30504@hq.dyns.cx> In-Reply-To: <3DB21F6D.30504@hq.dyns.cx> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200210212225.01169.soralx@cydem.zp.ua> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > From what I have gathered doing web seaches, the cpuid opcode is *not* > trappable. :( What's the problem then? The guest OS should get proper info from the CPUID instruction. Can you test that? What does CPU info program show about the CPU in a guest OS? The problem is in VMWare - it has some weird reaction to P6 instructions. > Oct 16 23:44:47: F(140) line=1893 0x10:0xc02660bc fault=13 can you disassemble 0xc02660bc? > Seems like there should be a way to trap the fault 13 > to not have the guest os panic or blue screen. don't think so Programs with P6 instructions won't start working from this anyway... 21.10.2002; 22:07:56 [SorAlx] http://cydem.zp.ua/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message