Greetings, FYI, I got lots of these errors in 3.6.0 in one of my test box. Attached is the full dmesg. [ 5174.699117] vmwrite error: reg 401e value 81e76200 (err 12) [ 5174.701692] vmwrite error: reg 401e value 81e76200 (err 12) [ 5174.701696] Pid: 3948, comm: kvm Not tainted 3.6.0 #23 [ 5174.701696] Call Trace: [ 5174.701708] [] vmwrite_error+0x2c/0x2e [ 5174.701713] [] vmcs_writel+0x1e/0x20 [ 5174.701716] [] vmx_cpuid_update+0xe4/0xf8 [ 5174.701719] [] kvm_vcpu_ioctl_set_cpuid2+0x68/0x7d [ 5174.701723] [] kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl+0x34f/0xc55 [ 5174.701725] [] ? vmx_vcpu_load+0x33/0x195 [ 5174.701727] [] ? kvm_arch_vcpu_load+0xb9/0x16a [ 5174.701730] [] kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x46c/0x4ea [ 5174.701732] [] ? kvm_arch_dev_ioctl+0x16d/0x188 [ 5174.701736] [] do_vfs_ioctl+0x462/0x4a3 [ 5174.701740] [] ? vm_mmap_pgoff+0x6b/0x78 [ 5174.701742] [] sys_ioctl+0x47/0x6c [ 5174.701746] [] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b [ 5174.702587] vmwrite error: reg 401e value 81e76200 (err 12) [ 5174.702589] Pid: 3947, comm: kvm Not tainted 3.6.0 #23 [ 5174.702589] Call Trace: [ 5174.702594] [] vmwrite_error+0x2c/0x2e [ 5174.702597] [] vmcs_writel+0x1e/0x20 [ 5174.702599] [] vmx_cpuid_update+0xe4/0xf8 [ 5174.702601] [] kvm_vcpu_ioctl_set_cpuid2+0x68/0x7d [ 5174.702603] [] kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl+0x34f/0xc55 [ 5174.702606] [] ? vmx_vcpu_load+0x33/0x195 [ 5174.702608] [] ? kvm_arch_vcpu_load+0xb9/0x16a [ 5174.702609] [] kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x46c/0x4ea [ 5174.702611] [] ? kvm_arch_dev_ioctl+0x16d/0x188 [ 5174.702614] [] do_vfs_ioctl+0x462/0x4a3 [ 5174.702616] [] ? vm_mmap_pgoff+0x6b/0x78 [ 5174.702617] [] sys_ioctl+0x47/0x6c [ 5174.702620] [] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b Another test box running the same kernel hangs and keep emitting the following dmesg lines: vmx_handle_exit: unexpected, valid vectoring info (0x80000b0e) and exit reason is 0x31 Thanks, Fengguang