Re: [Qemu-devel] Regression bug

[Ben Taylor]

Hi Julia,

---- address@hidden wrote: 
> On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 01:10:02AM -0400, Ben Taylor wrote:
> > 
> > I've been keeping up with CVS patches for qemu about once a week.  I just 
> > updated
> > tonight after the big round of patches that have been commited and am 
> > seeing a
> > consistent failure with my existing ubuntu-7.04 32-bit guest on Solaris 
> > 10/x86 32-bit
> > host.  The last time I tested the CVS code would have been 5/21/07, so 
> > something
> > recently changed has broken the i386-softmmu
> > 
> > qemu: fatal: Trying to execute code outside RAM or ROM at 0xfffffff0
> > 

> > Anyone seen this?
> > 
> > Ben
> > 
> Ben:
> 
> i've been monitoring this, and reporting on irc since the bug was comitted. 
> i've tracked it down to somewhere between CVS version 2007-05-26 15:00 and 
> 2007-05-26 17:40.
> as in, 15:00 works, 17:40 dosent, and if i try to check out the version 
> between.. it fails to compile.

Great spot.  I reverted the patch to exec.c  from 05/26/07 at 17:36 and QEMU 
again booted my ubuntu 7.04 image.

Looks like the patch from 
http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/qemu/exec.c?cvsroot=qemu&r1=1.96&r2=1.97
needs to be reverted and reworked before being recommitted.

> I'm quite new here, so i didn't feel like yelling "the sky is falling" on a 
> mailing list.

What you did was perfect.  Thanks. 

> 
> hope this helps,
> 
> Julia Longtin <address@hidden>

Regards,

Ben