On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 09:03:07AM -0400, Mike Haboustak wrote: > The following commit fixes freezes in virtio device drivers when KVM > is nested under > VMWare Workstation/ESXi or Hyper-V. I've encountered problems running KVM > inside VMWare since upgrading to Debian 9 (currently testing 4.9.88-1+deb9u1). > > d391f1207067268261add0485f0f34503539c5b0 > > The same issue affects 4.4.y as well. A git-bisect within my > environment stopped at > e9ea5069d9e569c32ab913c39467df32e056b3a7, where the KVM capability was added > that QEMU checks before enabling fast mmio. The patch does not apply to 4.9.y or 4.4.y, can you please provide a working backport? I will be glad to queue it up then. thanks, greg k-h
