mptable no longer errors out if it doesn't find the mptable target area

in the VM.  This area does not exist if the seabios is used.  With this fix
if you have an mptable in a VM that is instantiated with seabios, it will just
not create an mptable.  instead, the seabios will create one

diff --git a/palacios/src/devices/mptable.c b/palacios/src/devices/mptable.c
index c4cdc42..2eb0206 100644 (file)
--- a/palacios/src/devices/mptable.c
+++ b/palacios/src/devices/mptable.c
@@ -538,8 +538,9 @@ static int mptable_init(struct v3_vm_info * vm, v3_cfg_tree_t * cfg) {
     }
     
     if (!check_for_cookie(target)) { 
-       PrintError(vm, VCORE_NONE, "Cookie mismatch in writing mptable, aborting (probably wrong guest BIOS).\n");
-       return -1;
+       PrintError(vm, VCORE_NONE, "Cookie mismatch in writing mptable, aborting (probably just wrong guest BIOS, so this is not a hard error).\n");
+       // we pretend we were sucesssful
+       return 0;
     }
 
     if (vm->num_cores > 32) {