Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: loadvm and APIC

[malc]

On Tue, 17 Jun 2008, Fabrice Bellard wrote:

> malc wrote:
> > On Tue, 17 Jun 2008, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> >
> > > malc wrote:
> > > > Here's the scenario:
> >
> > [..snip..]
> >
> > > That is basically
> > > http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.qemu/26215, which I
> > > would prefer.
> >
> > Yes, i never paid enough attention to that patch, and it does indeed
> > look better.
>
> No. This is a hack which does not fix the real problem. At least saving
> and restoring "interrupt_pending" would bring us closer to a better
> solution.

Have you read my mail? It's pit/serlial vs [a]pic init/loadvm interaction
which is broken, real fix would involve fixing this and i don't see clean
way of doing that. When using plain i8259 guest doesn't panic only because
i8259 emits a spurious IRQ (and APIC does not).

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