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Subject: Re: how to debug unhandled vm exit: 0x11?
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 10:58:33 -0700
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> O
> n 07/26/2010 07:01 PM, Neo Jia wrote:
> > hi,
> >
> > I am seeing an unhandled vm exit: 0x11 on Win7 with KVM-88 release and
> > wondering if I am still able to dump the code from guest OS when this
> > happens. But it looks that all instructions are 0s after adding one
> > more print code after dumping the guest registers.
> >
> > And it is very likely that this problem is fixed in the latest qemu
> > code base but I still would like to know how to debug and investigate
> > this kind of problem. BTW, I am using 32-bit qemu + 64-bit KVM kernel
> > module.
> >
> > unhandled vm exit: 0x11

I happened to be in the intel docs today:
  0x11 (17) RSM. Guest software attempted to execute RSM in SMM.

What is RSM and SMM?

> 
> The first step is to look up exit reason 0x11 in the manual and see what 
> it means.
>