Bug#707257: linux-image-3.8-1-686-pae: KVM crashes with "entry failed, hardware error 0x80000021"

[Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>]

On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 05:05:55PM +0200, Stefan Pietsch wrote:
> On 19.05.2013 14:32, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> > On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 02:00:31AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> >> Dear KVM maintainers, it appears that there is a gap in x86 emulation,
> >> at least on a 32-bit host.  Stefan found this when running GRML, a live
> >> distribution which can be downloaded from:
> >> <http://download.grml.org/grml32-full_2013.02.iso>.  His original
> >> reported is at <http://bugs.debian.org/707257>.
> >>
> > Can you verify with latest linux.git HEAD? It works for me there on
> > 64bit. There were a lot of problems fixed in this area in 3.9/3.10 time frame,
> > so it would be helpful if you'll test 32bit before I install one myself.
> 
> 
> Ben,
> 
> can you provide a 3.9 series kernel package?

I will do soon, but you should be able to build your own:

# ...unpack upstream source...
$ cp /boot/config-$(uname -r) .config
$ yes "" | make oldconfig
$ make deb-pkg -j$(nproc)

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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