Re: [Xen-devel] Re: machine check report on HVM startup

[Christoph Egger <Christoph.Egger@xxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 13 August 2008 14:36:21 Keir Fraser wrote:
> On 13/8/08 13:27, "Keir Fraser" <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> This looks to me, there's a non-public event channel using the same
> >> number as VIRQ_MCA which fires when  launching memtest as HVM guest.
> >
> > I don't think this is the case. Sounds easy to repro this issue though.
> > I'll give it a go.
>
> I can boot a memtest-3.4 ISO in an HVM guest on PAE hypervisor just fine.

Does your Dom0 kernel registrate the machine check event handler ?
If not, then it things go fine. If yes, then you should see the flood of 
VIRQ_MCA events in the Dom0.

Christoph


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