The initial reset of the local APIC is performed before the VMCS has been created, but it tries to do a vmwrite: vmwrite error: reg 810 value 4a00 (err 18944) CPU: 54 PID: 38652 Comm: qemu-kvm Tainted: G W I 4.16.0-0.rc2.git0.1.fc28.x86_64 #1 Hardware name: Intel Corporation S2600CW/S2600CW, BIOS SE5C610.86B.01.01.0003.090520141303 09/05/2014 Call Trace: vmx_set_rvi [kvm_intel] vmx_hwapic_irr_update [kvm_intel] kvm_lapic_reset [kvm] kvm_create_lapic [kvm] kvm_arch_vcpu_init [kvm] kvm_vcpu_init [kvm] vmx_create_vcpu [kvm_intel] kvm_vm_ioctl [kvm] Move it later, after the VMCS has been created. Fixes: 851c1a18c5412fd321e387cfe60739387cdbf37d Cc: Liran Alon <liran.alon@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c | 1 - arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 1 + 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c b/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c index 924ac8ce9d50..cc5fe7a50dde 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c @@ -2165,7 +2165,6 @@ int kvm_create_lapic(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu) */ vcpu->arch.apic_base = MSR_IA32_APICBASE_ENABLE; static_key_slow_inc(&apic_sw_disabled.key); /* sw disabled at reset */ - kvm_lapic_reset(vcpu, false); kvm_iodevice_init(&apic->dev, &apic_mmio_ops); return 0; diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c index c8a0b545ac20..ca90d9515137 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c @@ -7975,6 +7975,7 @@ int kvm_arch_vcpu_setup(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu) kvm_vcpu_mtrr_init(vcpu); vcpu_load(vcpu); kvm_vcpu_reset(vcpu, false); + kvm_lapic_reset(vcpu, false); kvm_mmu_setup(vcpu); vcpu_put(vcpu); return 0; -- 1.8.3.1