Re: Solaris 10 U2 installation failure

Parag Warudkar wrote:
> [This was posted on LKML but I realized later it's best to post it here]
>
> Avi Kivity <avi <at> argo.co.il> writes:
>
>   
>> John Freighter wrote:
>>     
>>> Has anybody succeded running OpenSolaris under KVM virtualization?
>>> Before I download OS install DVD in vain...
>>>
>>>       
>> There was indeed a report (and a patch) from Michael Riepe to that 
>> effect.  -rc2 should contain that patch.  Please report to kvm-devel if 
>> it doesn't work.
>>
>>     
>
>
> I tried installing Solaris 10 U2 with Qemu/KVM-8 on -rc2 plus 
> the latest 8 kernel side KVM patches. 
> It appeared to work well until about 80% in the installation 
> where it got stuck after this error is dmesg -
>
> vmwrite error: reg 6802 value 1c334000 (err 17408)
>
>   

This is a serious error.  Is it reproducible?

If so, please send your .config.

> I saved the VM state and later tried reloading it,
> but that resulted in recursive BAD TRAPS inside Solaris.
> After a while the host got stuck - no user inputs were accepted, 
> but the box was pingable.  Had to hard reset it. 
>   

Well, after the first issue, all bets are off.

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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function


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