Re: [qvm86-devel] (no subject)

[Vipin Bhargava]

Yeah, well, I am by no means a coder :-)
At least not in this life.

*shrug* just fooling about

Vip

----- Original Message -----
From: Paul Brook <address@hidden>
Date: Sunday, May 8, 2005 3:30 pm
Subject: Re: [qvm86-devel] (no subject)

> On Sunday 08 May 2005 22:47, Vipin Bhargava wrote:
> > Well, the problem seemed to come down to errors along the lines 
> of invalid
> > argument in movl or pushl in switch.S.
> 
> <...>
> You don't say what host architecture you're using, I assume x86-64
> (aka amd64). 
> 
> I can say for certain that qvm86 won't work on amd64 without 
> significant 
> changes. For a start it doesn't support PAE, which is required in 
> long mode.
> 
> Obviously you can use avm86 on amd64 hardware running a 32-bit kernel.
> 
> > May  6 20:40:27 localhost kernel: qvm86: Module loaded
> > May  6 20:40:27 localhost kernel: qvm86: Created device 10.62
> 
> Looks like qemu isn't actually using avm86.
> 
> Paul
>