ces it into conformance. On a transition back to protected mode, if we see that the guest did not touch a forced segment, we restore it back to the original protected mode value. This pile of hacks breaks down if the gdt has changed in real mode, as it can cause a segment selector to point to a system descriptor instead of a normal data segment. In fact, this happens with the Windows bootloader and the qemu acpi bios, where a protected mode memcpy routine issues an innocent 'pop %es' and traps on an attempt to load a system descriptor. "Fix" by checking if the to-be-restored selector points at a system segment, and if so, coercing it into a normal data segment. The long term solution, of course, is to abandon vm86 mode and use emulation for big real mode. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity ˆË#’Vx