On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 01:24:22PM +0100, Alexander Graf wrote: > Hm - maybe worth a try to give it a -L to the source pc-bios directory > anyways.
Doesn't change a thing. > Sounds like your guest kernel is trying to access an x86_64 register? > > You can of cause try insmod'ing kvm.ko with ignore_msrs=1. You hopefully > don't need syscalls until you get into user space. The option doesn't exist yet in 2.6.31 which I'm running on this box because 2.6.32-rc has massive regressions for my workload. I booted into it again anyway to test the option - and interestingly enough qemu with -enable-kvm boots just fine even without ignore_msrs=1. Looks like the problem only happens with older kernels.