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On 09/14/2009 02:04 AM, Dave Korn wrote:
> 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?
>
No, its an AMD Phenom II.  However, your hints were correct.  I disabled 
the VirtualBox System::VT-x/AMD-V features and the problem goes away. 
What Crystal Balls you have!

:)

Jerry

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