>> -------------------- >> .... >> [ 217.938034] Uhhuh. NMI received for unknown reason 30 on CPU 0. >> [ 217.938034] Do you have a strange power saving mode enabled? >> .[ 222.523373] Uhhuh. NMI received for unknown reason 20 on CPU 0. >> [ 222.524073] Do you have a strange power saving mode enabled? >> [ 222.524073] Dazed and confused, but trying to continue >> [ 243.860319] Uhhuh. NMI received for unknown reason 30 on CPU 0 >> ..... >> -------------------- >> At the moment, L2 guest creation stuck at the above message >> > Are those in L2 dmesg or L1? L2 dmesg. >> $ cat /etc/grub2.cfg | egrep -i 'hpet|nmi' >> > IIRC watchdog is enabled by default. Indeed, you're right. I disabled NMI on L1, and rebooted the newly created L2 guest starts just fine. I'm cloning it to run another instance of L2. And, later try some kernel compiles inside L2 to see if I can consistently get some measurable numbers. Thanks all for your help. /kashyap -- 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