For Nova under VirtualBox I get that error

Udo Steinberg udo at ...121...
Sun Sep 18 17:21:00 CEST 2016


The subject sounds like Paul is running NOVA in a virtual machine. So maybe the VM does not support those instructions. 

- Udo

> On 18 Sep 2016, at 17:10, Christian Helmuth <christian.helmuth at ...1...> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
>> On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 01:20:16PM +0200, Udo Steinberg wrote:
>> On Sun, 18 Sep 2016 05:32:25 -0400 Paul Dufresne (PD) wrote:
>> 
>> PD> NOVA Microhypervisor v7-23e7882 (x86_32): Aug 29 2016 10:39:41 [gcc 4.9.2]
>> PD> 
>> PD> [ 0] CORE:0:0:0 f:4:9:4 [0]                 Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.66GHz
>> PD> [ 0] Killed EC:0xc23ca160 SC:0xc23cb100 V:0x6 CS:0x8 EIP:0xc000002c
>> PD> CR2:0x0 ERR:0x0 (EXC)
>> 
>> This is an invalid opcode exception and it means your CPU is rather old and
>> does not understand the instruction at IP 0xc000002c. You can disassemble
>> the hypervisor binary using objdump and check which instruction that is.
> 
> With a recent build of NOVA/32 I get
> 
>> objdump -ldSC build/nova_x86_32/kernel/hypervisor | grep > "c000002c:"
>  c000002c: 0f 35                sysexit
> 
> But I had expected those CPUs to support sysenter/sysexit.
> 
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