Re: [PATCH] target/i386: relax assert when old host kernels don't include msrs

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On Wed, Dec 04, 2019 at 04:34:45PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 04/12/19 16:07, Catherine Ho wrote:
> >> Ok, so the problem is that some MSR didn't exist in that version.  Which
> > I thought in my platform, the only MSR didn't exist is MSR_IA32_VMX_BASIC
> > (0x480). If I remove this kvm_msr_entry_add(), everything is ok, the guest can
> > be boot up successfully.
> > 
> 
> MSR_IA32_VMX_BASIC was added in kvm-4.10.  Maybe the issue is the
> _value_ that is being written to the VM is not valid?  Can you check
> what's happening in vmx_restore_vmx_basic?

I believe env->features[FEAT_VMX_BASIC] will be initialized to 0
if the host kernel doesn't have KVM_CAP_GET_MSR_FEATURES.

-- 
Eduardo





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