Sander van Leeuwen wrote: > Hi, > > We have had several reports of users saying our product VirtualBox > crashes their (Linux) host. It turned out that KVM is responsible, because > it leaves the CPU in VMX root mode. > > Doing this changes the way the cpu operates: updates to reserved bits in > control registers cause general protection faults. > We hit such cases on two occasions; clearing the X86_CR4_VMXE bit in CR4 > and turning off paging. > > I have added a workaround to detect VMX root mode, simply refuse to run > and recommend that the user disables KVM. > I would however appreciate if you could fix KVM instead. > >
Simply '/sbin/rmmod kvm-intel' and kvm will exit vmx root mode. -- Any sufficiently difficult bug is indistinguishable from a feature. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ kvm-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel
