VMM: VM crash/Guru meditation with memtest86

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Technologov
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VMM: VM crash/Guru meditation with memtest86

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Host: Debian Linux 8, VBox RC3, 48 CPUs (24 Core+HT), Intel Xeon Haswell. (Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2670 v3 @ 2.30GHz) + 288 GB of RAM.
Guest: memtest86 (from RHEL 5, x64 DVD) tried with 4 GB of RAM... up to 240 GB of RAM. 1 CPU.

Bad news: VM often (but not always!) crashes via Guru meditation.
Good news: it seems to work with newer version of memtest86 (from RHEL7 DVD)
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frank
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Re: VMM: VM crash/Guru meditation with memtest86

Post by frank »

It's just a triple fault in the guest. Could be very well a bug in this version of memtest86.
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