Re: how to debug unhandled vm exit: 0x11?

[Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>]

  On 07/26/2010 08:58 PM, ewheeler wrote:
>> 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.

As it happens, the 0x11 should be looked up as a KVM_EXIT_REASON 
(kvm.h), not in the manuals as I said.  It's a kvm internal error.

> What is RSM and SMM?

These are documented in the manuals.

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