On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 12:15:02AM -0800, Dor Laor wrote: > The BIOS check is a must, it checks bit #0 of MSR_IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL, > if it set this means that software cannot write to the MSR. If bit #2 is > clear too then when executing vmxon you'll get #GP. > > So the check should better be there... You were right, just writing to this MSR (via kvm_enable) halts my laptop. Which is kinda strange, as this solution works on Intel Mac Minis. Anyway, complaint to Lenovo sent and got ignored. -- Tomasz Torcz ,,(...) today's high-end is tomorrow's embedded processor.'' [email protected] -- Mitchell Blank on LKML
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