Bug 457023 - can't boot rawhide (f10) kernel on VMI-enabled VMWare Workstation
Summary: can't boot rawhide (f10) kernel on VMI-enabled VMWare Workstation
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: rawhide
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Kernel Maintainer List
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-07-29 09:48 UTC by Tomasz Torcz
Modified: 2008-10-15 13:44 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2008-10-15 13:44:38 UTC
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Description Tomasz Torcz 2008-07-29 09:48:21 UTC 
Description of problem:
I have Fedora 9 x86_64 (on Opteron 150 CPU) in which I have installed VMware
Workstation 6.0.4. Inside VMWare I installed Fedora 9 i686, which I upgraded via
yum to rawhide.
Now, If I enable VMI support in VMWare Workstation (option called "Enabling
Paravirtual Kernel Support"), booting fedora fails at the beginning with:

#v+
initrd /initrd-2.6.27-0.183.rc0.git14.fc10.i686.img
   [Linux-initrd @ 0x1fad3000, 0x40c830 bytes]
   
   
BUG:  Int 6: CR2 00000000
      EDI 00000000  ESI 00000000  EBP c07daf20  ESP c07daf0c
      EBX 04000000  EDX 00000006  ECX c0449af4  EAX 04000000
      err 00000000  EIP c07f3888   CS 00000060  flg 00010006
Stack:  c00cb000 c07daf34 c07f1491 20000000 00000000 20000000 c07dafc8 c07e4d13
        c042cb82 00000086 c07dafd8 1fedf830 00000000 1fad3000 00000000 0040c830
        1fad3000 c0449af4 00000004 00000046 00000000 00000000 0000009b 00000003
#v-

Disabling VMI in VMWare workstation let Rawhide boot and function normally.
After googling I saw that similar problem was caused recently by missing "nopl"
opcode in some Cyrix CPUs. Is this a bug in fedora's VMI kernel implementation
or in VMWare Workstatio's emulation? 



How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Enable VMI in VMWare Workstation
2. Boot Fedora 2.6.27-rc0 kernel

  
Actual results:
Halt with above register dump.

Expected results:
Normal boot.
Comment 1 Tomasz Torcz 2008-10-15 13:44:38 UTC 
Fedora 10 with kernel 2.6.27-0.372.rc8.i686 boots on VMWare Workstation 6.5.0 build-118166 with VMI enabled.
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