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Subject: [Bug 114851] New: 2.6.32 L1 vm on 4.4 host with nested KVM enabled cannot launch L2 vm
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2016 06:00:55 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <bug-114851-28872@https.bugzilla.kernel.org/> (raw)
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=114851
Bug ID: 114851
Summary: 2.6.32 L1 vm on 4.4 host with nested KVM enabled
cannot launch L2 vm
Product: Virtualization
Version: unspecified
Kernel Version: 4.4+
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
Tree: Mainline
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: P1
Component: kvm
Assignee: virtualization_kvm@kernel-bugs.osdl.org
Reporter: jmontleo@redhat.com
Regression: No
With nested virtualization enabled it was possible with 4.2 and 4.3 to create
L1 RHEV hypervisors running on RHEL 6.7 that could then launch L2 vm's. With
4.4 this is no longer possible
The baremetal system is Fedora 23, currently running 4.4.5. On this an L1 RHEV
hypervisor runs RHEL 6.7 with kernel 2.6.32. Any L2 VM launched in RHEV with
this combination gets stuck booting and you soon start to see cpu soft lockups
on the L1.
adding a modprobe.d file on the L1 with options kvm_intel vpid=0 regains the
ability to launch VM's. Doing this on the baremetal host causes the L1 to panic
and reboot when you try to launch an L2 VM.
As an additional piece of information it still seems possible to launch vm's on
L1 RHEL 7 Openstack compute nodes, so it may be the combination of 4.4+ with
~2.6.32.
I ripped these out in 4.4.6 and rebuilt the kernel at which I once again no
longer saw vpid in /proc/cpuinfo on the L1 and am able to boot L2 vms again:
https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/99b83ac893b84ed1a62ad6d1f2b6cc32026b9e85
https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/089d7b6ec5151ad06a2cd524bc0580d311b641ad
https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/5c614b3583e7b6dab0c86356fa36c2bcbb8322a0
4.4.4 and 4.5.0 are also affected.
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