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Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2008 11:01:58 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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To: Christian Ehrhardt <lk@c--e.de>
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Subject: Re: Boot failures on Qemu due to P6_NOPS
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Christian Ehrhardt wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> this might well be a bug in Qemu but even then, it would be nice if the
> linux kernel could do a work around.
> 

It is a Qemu bug.  Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 have it too.

One *major* problems with virtualizers is that they uniformly use an 
existing CPU identifier, even though they might have their own sets of 
bugs.  This makes it much harder to work around bugs in them.

	-hpa
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