Re: [REGRESSION 5.0.x] Windows XP broken on KVM

From: Harald Arnesen
Date: Thu Apr 18 2019 - 17:49:40 EST


Greg Kroah-Hartman [18.04.2019 09:53]:

> On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 09:38:52AM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> we've got a regression report on the recent 5.0.x kernel, starting
>> from 5.0.6, where Windows XP can't boot on KVM any longer.
>>
>> The culprit seems to be the patch
>> KVM: x86: update %rip after emulating IO
>> with the upstream commit 45def77ebf79e2e8942b89ed79294d97ce914fa0.
>> Reverting this alone fixed the problem.
>>
>> The report is found at openSUSE bugzilla:
>> https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1132694
>>
>> Is there already a followup fix? If not, we need to revert it from
>> stable, at least.
>
> Is this also a problem in 5.1-rc5?

My previously installed Windows XP boots and runs fine in 5.1-rc5.
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Hilsen Harald