Pär Andersson wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I am getting a kernel panic when loading the kvm-amd module. I have talked a 
> little about this with aliguori on IRC and according to him the panic occurs 
> when KVM enables EFER.SVME.
>   

I find this very odd.  Setting EFER.SVME shouldn't do any harm even if 
it's already set.  The only thing I can think of would be that SVM 
wasn't available but this is an X2 so it really ought to be.

Anyone have any clue why setting EFER.SVME would cause an OOPS?

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Computer information:
> AMD Athlon64 X2 4400+, 65nm, Brisbane.
> Abit KN9 motherboard (nforce4)
> Ubuntu 7.04 x86_64
> Kernel version 2.6.20-15-generic (latest Ubuntu kernel for 7.04)
>
> Unfortunately my motherboard does not have rs232 so I can't attach a serial 
> console to get the text of the panic. Instead I have taken a photo of the 
> screen, not very good but it is the best I can do. This "screenshot" together 
> with some more hardware information (output from dmesg, /proc/cpuinfo etc) is 
> here:
>
> http://www-und.ida.liu.se/~paran213/kvm/2007-05-27/
>
> The screenshot is when using KVM-25, I get the same result using KVM-16(from 
> ubuntu packages) and KVM-24.
>
> regards
> Pär Andersson
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