Vmware crashes if compress/misc.c scrolls?

Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Wed, 20 Jun 2007 17:29:13 -0000

> Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>
>> You mean "is a real failure"?  Or "is triggered by
particular
>> instructions"?  It seems profoundly bogus (as in, surely DOS or
>> something reads the framebuffer).
>>
>>
>
> A real failure (although only triggered from some variant of protected
> mode -- paging off?)
>

Oh, it only happens in protected mode?  So the answer to "how does the
shadow framebuffer get populated?" is "real mode does it before
switching to protected mode".

    J