On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 12:18:12PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On Mon, 11 May 2015 09:09:08 -0700 Josh Triplett <j...@joshtriplett.org>
> wrote:
> > Decoding that instruction stream (either from those bytes, or via the
> > 'x' command in the qemu console) shows (starting with the failing
> > instruction):
> > 
> >    0:   9b db e3                finit
> 
> finit indeed is not supported by KVM in emulation mode.  The question is
> why KVM is in emulation mode.

Well, it's running ring 0 BIOS code, which may well be doing something
to break the assumptions needed to avoid a VMEXIT.

Leaving aside the "why KVM is in emulation mode", though, shouldn't
emulation mode support finit?

> Can you please collect a KVM trace (trace-cmd record -e kvm -e kvmmmu
> qemu-system-x86_64 --enable-kvm ...) and provide the full QEMU command line?
>
> Also please include the output of "grep -r . /sys/module/kvm*/parameters".

Will do when I get back to that machine this evening.

- Josh Triplett


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