I386_VM86(2) BSD/i386 System Calls Manual I386_VM86(2)NAME
i386_vm86 -- set virtual 8086 processor registers and mode
LIBRARY
i386 Architecture Library (libi386, -li386)
SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <signal.h>
#include <machine/mcontext.h>
#include <machine/segments.h>
#include <machine/sysarch.h>
#include <machine/vm86.h>
int
i386_vm86(struct vm86_struct *vmcp);
DESCRIPTION
i386_vm86() will set the process into virtual 8086 mode using the registers and selectors specified by the context pointed to by vmcp. The
processor registers are set from vmcp->substr.regs, and the emulated processor type from vmcp->substr.ss_cpu_type.
The kernel keeps a pointer to the context, and uses the tables stored at vmcp->int_byuser and vmcp->int21_byuser for fast virtual interrupt
handling. If the n th bit is clear in the first of these arrays, then the kernel may directly emulate the real-mode x86 INT n instruction
handling. If the n th bit is set, then the process is delivered a signal when an INT instruction is executed.
Since MS-DOS puts many DOS functions onto interrupt 21, it is handled specially: the k th bit in the vmcp->int21_byuser array is checked
when INT 21 is requested and the ah register is k.
RETURN VALUES
This routine does not normally return: 32-bit mode will be restored by the delivery of a signal to the process. In case of an error in set-
ting the VM86 mode, a value of -1 is returned and the global variable errno is set to indicate the error.
ERRORS
i386_vm86() will fail if:
[EFAULT] The state at vmcp was not readable to the user process.
REFERENCES
i386 Microprocessor Programmer's Reference Manual, Intel
BSD February 20, 1996 BSD
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VM86(2) Linux Programmer's Manual VM86(2)NAME
vm86old, vm86 - enter virtual 8086 mode
SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/vm86.h>
int vm86old(struct vm86_struct *info);
int vm86(unsigned long fn, struct vm86plus_struct *v86);
DESCRIPTION
The system call vm86() was introduced in Linux 0.97p2. In Linux 2.1.15 and 2.0.28 it was renamed to vm86old(), and a new vm86() was intro-
duced. The definition of struct vm86_struct was changed in 1.1.8 and 1.1.9.
These calls cause the process to enter VM86 mode (virtual-8086 in Intel literature), and are used by dosemu.
VM86 mode is an emulation of real mode within a protected mode task.
RETURN VALUE
On success, zero is returned. On error, -1 is returned, and errno is set appropriately.
ERRORS
EFAULT This return value is specific to i386 and indicates a problem with getting user-space data.
ENOSYS This return value indicates the call is not implemented on the present architecture.
EPERM Saved kernel stack exists. (This is a kernel sanity check; the saved stack should exist only within vm86 mode itself.)
CONFORMING TO
This call is specific to Linux on 32-bit Intel processors, and should not be used in programs intended to be portable.
COLOPHON
This page is part of release 3.53 of the Linux man-pages project. A description of the project, and information about reporting bugs, can
be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.
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