From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bernhard Kohl Subject: Re: Problems with kvm-73 on PAE host Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 14:26:47 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: kvm@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:58609 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753122AbYIDO1E (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Sep 2008 10:27:04 -0400 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KbFnU-0002FT-C3 for kvm@vger.kernel.org; Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:26:57 +0000 Received: from proxy4-nsn.nsn-inter.net ([217.115.75.232]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:26:56 +0000 Received: from Bernhard.Kohl by proxy4-nsn.nsn-inter.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:26:56 +0000 Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Bernhard Kohl nsn.com> writes: > > Hi, > > I'm trying to run kvm-73 on a Linux PAE host. I'm using Fedora 8 on the host, > installed kernel-PAE and kernel-PAE-devel (2.6.25.14-69.fc8.i686), built and > installed KVM: > > make distclean > ./configure > make > make install > > Immediately after starting any VM the following error occurs. Did I miss > anything? No problems with the non PAE kernels. > > kvm_run: failed entry, reason 7 > kvm_run returned -8 Hi again, some more infos about this topic: As I could find out this is an VM-instruction error (VM entry with invalid control field(s)). Is this a bug in KVM when running on a PAE kernel? Or are there special configuration options necessary for building KVM for a PAE kernel. There is no output in dmesg.