Bug 438416 - Bogus kernel warning generated on boot as VMware guest
Summary: Bogus kernel warning generated on boot as VMware guest
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: rawhide
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
low
low
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Assignee: Kernel Maintainer List
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-03-20 19:19 UTC by Jason Taylor
Modified: 2008-05-05 15:52 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2008-05-05 15:52:45 UTC
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2008-03-20 19:19 UTC, Jason Taylor 		no flags Details
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Description Jason Taylor 2008-03-20 19:19:36 UTC 
Description of problem:

Have a fresh kvm/qemu vm install of Rawhide from boot.iso running kernel
2.6.25-0.121.rc5.git4.fc9 and get a WARNING: strange, CPU MTRRs all blank? and
kernel oops on boot.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

kernel 2.6.25-0.121.rc5.git4.fc9

How reproducible:

every boot

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Expected results:


Additional info:

The computer is a Dell M1710 with F8 as the OS. The Rawhide VM still runs once
getting past the kernel oops message after the GUI loads.
Comment 1 Jason Taylor 2008-03-20 19:19:36 UTC 
Created attachment 298735 [details]
dmesg snippet
Comment 2 Andreas Ott 2008-04-18 18:15:55 UTC 
I get the same oops at bootup, also the 'a kernel error has occured' after logging
in as a user to the X/gnome session.
This is inside a VM on VMWare-Server-1.0.4 (with RHEL5 as the host OS).
Comment 3 Chuck Ebbert 2008-04-26 16:46:32 UTC 
This is just a warning.
Comment 4 Dave Jones 2008-05-05 15:52:45 UTC 
Also, I'm not sure why you think it's bogus.  VMWare isn't setting the MTRRs. It
should.  (Or if it doesn't, it shouldn't pretend to have any)
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