Bug 593230

Summary: Add HLT instruction emulation to VMXAssist in Xen
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: RHEL Program Management <pm-rhel>
Component: xenAssignee: Xen Maintainance List <xen-maint>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
Severity: urgent Docs Contact:
Priority: low    
Version: 5.5CC: atodorov, borgan, drjones, hpa, jforbes, jhradile, llim, minovotn, mrezanin, pawank.kamboj, pbonzini, pm-eus, sprabhu, syeghiay, xen-maint
Target Milestone: rcKeywords: ZStream
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Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: xen-3.0.3-105.el5_5.4 Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Due to the missing HLT (halt) instruction emulation in the VMXAssist real-mode emulator, certain versions of the SYSLINUX boot loader could have caused the guest operating system (domU) to stop responding. With this update, the HLT instruction emulation has been added, and all versions of SYSLINUX now boot properly.
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Last Closed: 2010-07-08 09:31:21 UTC Type: ---
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Bug Depends On: 580945    
Bug Blocks: 514499    

Description RHEL Program Management 2010-05-18 09:09:55 UTC
This bug has been copied from bug #580945 and has been proposed
to be backported to 5.5 z-stream (EUS).

Comment 5 Jaromir Hradilek 2010-07-07 08:54:46 UTC
Technical note added. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field
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New Contents:
Due to the missing HLT (halt) instruction emulation in the VMXAssist real-mode emulator, certain versions of the SYSLINUX boot loader could have caused the guest operating system (domU) to stop responding. With this update, the HLT instruction emulation has been added, and all versions of SYSLINUX now boot properly.

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2010-07-08 09:31:21 UTC
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2010-0515.html