On Thu, Nov 30, 2023 at 2:00 PM Maciej S. Szmigiero <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I think that if particular guest would work on bare metal it should > work on "-cpu host" too - no tinkering should be required for such > basic functionality as being able to successfully finish booting. I disagree. Let's not focus on one particular erratum. If, for whatever reason, the host kernel is booted with "noxsaves," I don't think KVM should allow a guest to bypass that directive.