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Date:	Mon, 14 Sep 2009 10:04:54 +0100
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Dave Korn wrote:

>   Nah, hang on, I'll give the psychic debugging a go.  <places hand to
> forehead, covering eyes, waves other hand out in front of me in a
> mystical-looking way>  I'm getting something.... the spirits are talking... or
> maybe it's just the beer...  and they tell me: The problem is that the CPUID
> instruction in your virtual machine is returning some kind of bogus output
> that's leading set_fpu() to believe the CPU supports SSE, but the emulation in
> fact does not, and it blows up here:
> 
>> 0x697826c4 <set_fpu+164>:       stmxcsr -0x14(%ebp)

  Also, is your CPU a VIA by any chance, maybe a C7?

    cheers,
      DaveK


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