GitHub user StepBee closed the discussion with a comment: Installation of 
Windows Server 2025 on KVM Hypervisors in bootloop

@SviridoffA we experienced the issue when upgrading from Ubuntu 20.04 Kernel 
5.4.0-174-generic to Ubuntu 24.04 Kernel 6.8.0-60-generic. But observed this 
change in the kernel was happening already at version 5.15.0-153-generic as 
well.
I would assume this should have happened across all Linux OS - but have no 
other hosts to prove it.

The error appearing in our case whentrying to live migrate from non-updated 
hosts to an already updated host was
`qemu-system-x86_64: error: failed to set MSR 0x38f to 0xf000000ff
qemu-system-x86_64: target/i386/kvm/kvm.c:3210: kvm_buf_set_msrs: Assertion ret 
== cpu->kvm_msr_buf->nmsrs' failed.`

The combination of the Intel Xeon Gold CPU and the new kernel version with new 
features surprisingly brought up more performance counters, visible for example 
executing

Old kernel:
```
# rdmsr 0x38f
f000000ff
```
New kernel:
```
# rdmsr 0x38f
1000f000000ff
```

Even after extensive research and testing, we have not been able to track this 
down to a specific CPU flag (which we potentially could have disabled) or any 
other feature to enable live migration again.


GitHub link: 
https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/discussions/11714#discussioncomment-14700869

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