[Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#525169: xen-utils-3.2-1: FreeBSD (possbly others) do not work in Xen 3.2-1 due to real mode emulation bugs

[Jacob Myers]

Package: xen-utils-3.2-1
Version: 3.2.1-2
Severity: important

Intel processors have a bug with Vt that causes problems with Xen real-mode emulation. This renders FreeBSD
(and possibly other OS'es) unbootable in Xen with HVM. Later versions of Xen 3.2 (and 3.3) emulate
real-mode instructions so this problem doesn't exist. I would provide the relevant patches, but I do not
have much familiarity with the Xen source code :(.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-xen-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages xen-utils-3.2-1 depends on:
ii  e2fslibs               1.41.3-1          ext2 filesystem libraries
ii  iproute                20090324-1        networking and traffic control too
ii  libc6                  2.9-4             GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgcrypt11            1.4.4-2           LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libgnutls26            2.6.4-2           the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libncurses5            5.7+20090404-1    shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libsdl1.2debian        1.2.13-4+b1       Simple DirectMedia Layer
ii  libxenstore3.0         3.2.1-2           Xenstore communications library fo
ii  python                 2.5.4-2           An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-central         0.6.11            register and build utility for Pyt
ii  udev                   0.125-7           /dev/ and hotplug management daemo
ii  xen-utils-common       3.2.0-2           XEN administrative tools - common 
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-13 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages xen-utils-3.2-1 recommends:
ii  bridge-utils                  1.4-5      Utilities for configuring the Linu
ii  xen-hypervisor-3.2-1-amd64 [x 3.2.1-2    The Xen Hypervisor on AMD64

Versions of packages xen-utils-3.2-1 suggests:
ii  xen-docs-3.2                  3.2.1-2    Documentation for Xen

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