Re: w2k8 - reboots unexpected

[Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>]

On 06/18/2009 02:37 PM, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 01:27:25PM +0200, Andreas Jud wrote:
>    
>> Hi
>>
>> We are running kvm-84 on debian x64 Linux.
>>
>> We have serveral guest running on this host.
>>
>> One guest witch is running windows 2008 server and used as a terminal
>> server, reboots sometimes unexpected.
>>
>> All what I found so far is the following error in the kernel-logfile:
>> Jun 18 10:33:17 sov07l kernel: [1470365.925930] kvm_handle_exit: Breaking
>> out of NMI-blocked state on VCPU 1 after 1 s timeout
>> Jun 18 10:33:17 sov07l kernel: [1470365.929077] kvm_handle_exit: Breaking
>> out of NMI-blocked state on VCPU 2 after 1 s timeout
>> Jun 18 10:33:17 sov07l kernel: [1470365.929077] kvm_handle_exit: Breaking
>> out of NMI-blocked state on VCPU 3 after 1 s timeout
>>
>> Does anybody have an idea what this mean? And what we could do, to make the
>> system stable? resolve this error?
>>
>>      
> You host cpu does not support NMI injection in VMX (your Intel processor
> is too old). I can't tell for sure if this is what causes w2k8 to reboot
> itself, but this is possible. Does w2k8 has some kind of NMI watchdog?
>
>    

It doesn't inject NMIs here.

Can you set up memory dumping on BSODs and run the !analyze command in 
windbg?

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