The cause of this was that the guest was running under an older version
of VMware that didn't correctly support the new features of the
hypervisor CPU, and was passing the CPU features through to the guest.
So, when the guest tried to setup xsave/xrstor, it failed to even
initialize, even though
** Description changed:
[impact]
Running the 4.4 kernel, VMware guests were operating ok; then after an
upgrade to the HWE 4.13 kernel and guest reboot, some of the VMware
guests report errors and most of their userspace programs randomly
segfault. The system is unusable.
The
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