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charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-purgate-ID: tlsNG-c201ff/1788434065-F6CB02A1-43CADB04/0/0 X-purgate-type: clean X-purgate-size: 1114 On 03.09.2026 12:55, Ross Lagerwall wrote: > On 9/3/26 11:44 AM, Jan Beulich wrote: >> On 28.08.2026 15:11, Ross Lagerwall wrote: >>> The Viridian spec requires the vector to be >= 0x10 when writing to the >>> SINTx MSR, otherwise it should #GP fault. >>> The spec-defined initial value is 0x0000000000010000, i.e. the vector is >>> 0. On startup, for some reason Windows 11 Hyper-V tries to set the MSR to >>> the spec-defined initial value and since the vector is 0, it GP faults. >>> To workaround this, treat the write as a no-op if the value is >>> unchanged. >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Ross Lagerwall >> >> Acked-by: Jan Beulich >> >> I expect that despite the (valid) absence of a Fixes: tag this will want >> backporting. > > It should be fine to backport, though in general I think backporting nested > virt fixes at this point is not needed as there will be too many changes to go > into the stable releases for it to reach a usable state. How is this nested-virt related? It looks to affect Win11 when run on bare- metal Xen? Jan