Every time a try and start a kvm-based VM with virt-manager the guest crashes during boot-up with this message in the host's kernel logger. [ 6762.680687] device eth0 entered promiscuous mode [ 6769.287090] kvm: 14513: cpu0 unhandled rdmsr: 0xc001100d [ 6769.287151] kvm: 14513: cpu0 unhandled rdmsr: 0xc0010112 [ 6769.535786] kvm: 14513: cpu0 unhandled rdmsr: 0xc0010001 [ 6771.588616] qemu-kvm[14515]: segfault at 10 ip 00007f93c7848d0e sp 00007f93bfb21c00 error 4 in qemu-system-x86_64[7f93c7718000+308000] [ 6771.639525] device eth0 left promiscuous mode >From the libvirt log this is the command being used to launch the VM: LC_ALL=C PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin HOME=/root USER=root LOGNAME=root QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=none /usr/bin/qemu-kvm -S -M pc-1.0 -cpu phenom,+3dnowprefetch,+cr8legacy,+extapic,+cmp_legacy,+lahf_lm,+rdtscp,+cx16,+ht,+vme,-monitor -enable-kvm -m 3072 -smp 1,maxcpus=2,sockets=2,cores=1,threads=1 -name Debian -uuid 0bd3a8c5-3831-edb6-05bb-a0a018849e69 -nodefconfig -nodefaults -chardev socket,id=charmonitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/Debian.monitor,server,nowait -mon chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=control -rtc base=utc -no-reboot -no-shutdown -device piix3-usb-uhci,id=usb,bus=pci.0,addr=0x1.0x2 -drive file=/home/virt/images/Debian.img,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk0,format=raw,cache=none,aio=native -device virtio-blk-pci,scsi=off,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4,drive=drive-virtio-disk0,id=virtio-disk0,bootindex=2 -drive file=/home/virt/images/Debian-1.img,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk1,format=raw,cache=none,aio=native -device virtio-blk-pci,scsi=off,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5,drive=drive-virtio-disk1,id=virtio-disk1 -drive file=/home/virt/images/Debian-2.img,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk2,format=raw,cache=none,aio=native -device virtio-blk-pci,scsi=off,bus=pci.0,addr=0x6,drive=drive-virtio-disk2,id=virtio-disk2 -drive file=/home/virt/debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso,if=none,media=cdrom,id=drive-ide0-1-0,readonly=on,format=raw -device ide-drive,bus=ide.1,unit=0,drive=drive-ide0-1-0,id=ide0-1-0,bootindex=1 -netdev tap,fd=21,id=hostnet0 -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=hostnet0,id=net0,mac=52:54:00:fd:d0:3b,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3 -chardev pty,id=charserial0 -device isa-serial,chardev=charserial0,id=serial0 -device usb-tablet,id=input0 -vnc 127.0.0.1:1 -vga cirrus -device virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x7 My system details: CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual-Core Processor TK-55 uname -a output on host: Linux arch 3.4.4-2-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Jun 24 18:59:47 CEST 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux KVM version: QEMU emulator version 1.1.0 (qemu-kvm-1.1.0) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html