RE: [Xen-ia64-devel][Patch]Add two PALcallswhichfixSMPwindowsinstallation crashing bug

[Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 10:11 +0800, Xu, Anthony wrote:
> > 
> >    What happens with more than 8 vCPUs on an "Enterprise Edition"
> > license?  It seems more than coincidental that they fail so similarly.
> > Thanks,
> Yes, they fail similarly, because they are running the same funtions when 
> failing.
> This function will write zero to all control register with psr.ic=0, when 
> writing to pta, it
> will trigger reserverd bit fault, inside xen due to this gp fault happens 
> with vpsr.ic=0,
> Xen panic this domain, if Xen doesn't panic this domain, just print warnning 
> message, and inject
> Gp fault to guest OS, I think windows can be installed successfully just like 
> native.
> I'll try this.

   How does representing the processors as dual-core avoid this problem?
Thanks for verify win2003 already installs as a 2-way guest, I thought
that might be the case, but didn't have the opportunity to verify.
Thanks,

        Alex

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Alex Williamson                             HP Open Source & Linux Org.


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