Re: NVMM not working, NetBSD 9x amd64

[Chavdar Ivanov <ci4ic4%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Fri, 1 May 2020 at 13:59, Rhialto <rhialto%falu.nl@localhost> wrote:
>
> On Sun 26 Apr 2020 at 21:39:12 +0200, Maxime Villard wrote:
> > Maybe I should add a note in the man page to say that you cannot expect a CPU
> > from before ~2010 to have virtualization support.
>
> Or even better, what one should look for in the output of, for example,
> "cpuctl identify 0". Since I didn't exactly know, I made some guesses
> and assumed that my cpu ("Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-2120 CPU @ 3.30GHz")
> did't have the required features (it is from 2009 or so).  But this
> thread inspired me to modload nvmm, which actually helped, so I found
> out that it even works on this cpu.
>
> Of course I immediately tried it with Haiku (the BeOS clone) from
> https://download.haiku-os.org/nightly-images/x86_64/ and I got mixed
> results. Once it manages to boot it works fine and nicely fast (much
> better than without nvmm), but quite often it crashes into its kernel
> debugger during the first 10 seconds of booting, with different messages
> (I have seen "General Protection Exception" and "ASSERT failed ...
> fCPUCount >= 0").  ("qemu-system-x86_64 -accel nvmm -m 2G -cdrom
> haiku-master-hrev54106-x86_64-anyboot.iso" on a 9.0 GENERIC kernel)

I've never used Haiku so far; upon reading this I decided to try it on
my NetBSD-current laptop with nvmm.

So far, with several attempts, it works with no problem whatsoever,
directly booting the newest image on the site pointed above.

Another OS to play with...

The host cpu is Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3820QM CPU @ 2.70GHz, id 0x306a9.

>
> -Olaf.
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