This reverts commit a943ac50d10aac96dca63d0460365a699d41fdd0. Fine-grained VMX feature enablement in QEMU broke live migration with nested guest: (qemu) qemu-kvm: error: failed to set MSR 0x48e to 0xfff9fffe04006172 The problem is that QEMU does KVM_SET_NESTED_STATE before KVM_SET_MSRS, although it can probably be changed. RFC. I think the check for vmx->nested.vmxon is legitimate for everything but restore so removing it (what I do with the revert) is likely a no-go. I'd like to gather opinions on the proper fix: should we somehow check that the vCPU is in 'restore' start (has never being run) and make KVM_SET_MSRS pass or should we actually mandate that KVM_SET_NESTED_STATE is run after KVM_SET_MSRS by userspace? Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@xxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c | 7 ------- 1 file changed, 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c index 4aea7d304beb..bb8afe0c5e7f 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c @@ -1321,13 +1321,6 @@ int vmx_set_vmx_msr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u32 msr_index, u64 data) { struct vcpu_vmx *vmx = to_vmx(vcpu); - /* - * Don't allow changes to the VMX capability MSRs while the vCPU - * is in VMX operation. - */ - if (vmx->nested.vmxon) - return -EBUSY; - switch (msr_index) { case MSR_IA32_VMX_BASIC: return vmx_restore_vmx_basic(vmx, data); -- 2.24.1