Re: [Qemu-devel] [qemu-devel] Bug Report: VM crashed for some kinds of vCPU in nested virtualization

[Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>]

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On 2013-04-15 08:24, 李春奇 <Arthur Chunqi Li> wrote:
> Hi all,
> In a nested virtualization environment of qemu+KVM, some emulated CPU (such
> as core2duo) may cause L2 guest crash after booting for a while. Here's my
> configuration:
> 
> Host:
> Linux 3.5.7

You should better use latest version from kvm.git [1], branch "next".
Otherwise, you risk re-triggering bugs that were fixed in the meantime.

> Qemu is the latest version from git repository.
> Emulated CPU : core2duo
> 
> L1 guest:
> Linux 3.5.7
> Qemu is the latest version from git
> Emulated CPU : core2duo
> 
> L2 guest:
> Crash at some specific point after running for sometime.
> 
> 
> Here's the callback trace:
> 
> qemu-system-x86_64 -net nic,vlan=0,macaddr=00:26:b9:fa:fe:31 -net
> tap,vlan=0 -vnc :1 -hda vm1.1.img -m 512 -machine pc,accel=kvm -cpu
> core2duo -cdrom ubuntu-12.04.2-server-amd64.iso
> TUNSETIFF: Device or resource busy
> qemu-system-x86_64: pci_add_option_rom: failed to find romfile
> "efi-e1000.rom"
> KVM: entry failed, hardware error 0x7
                                    ^^^
As an exercise, you could try to track down what this number means.
Hint: there will be two possibilities (unfortunately).

> RAX=000000000000000f RBX=ffff88001f60c740 RCX=000000000000038f
> RDX=0000000000000007
> RSI=000000000000000f RDI=000000000000038f RBP=ffff88001e6ffaf0
> RSP=ffff88001e6ffaf0
> R8 =000000070000000f R9 =0000000000000000 R10=0000000000000000
> R11=0000000000000000
> R12=0000000000000001 R13=0000000000000001 R14=0000000000000000
> R15=ffff88001f617384
> RIP=ffffffff8103fe1a RFL=00000002 [-------] CPL=0 II=0 A20=1 SMM=0 HLT=0
> ES =0000 0000000000000000 000fffff 00000000
> CS =0010 0000000000000000 ffffffff 00a09b00 DPL=0 CS64 [-RA]
> SS =0018 0000000000000000 ffffffff 00c09300 DPL=0 DS   [-WA]
> DS =0000 0000000000000000 000fffff 00000000
> FS =0000 0000000000000000 000fffff 00000000
> GS =0000 ffff88001f600000 000fffff 00000000
> LDT=0000 0000000000000000 000fffff 00000000
> TR =0040 ffff88001f611580 00002087 00008b00 DPL=0 TSS64-busy
> GDT=     ffff88001f604000 0000007f
> IDT=     ffffffff81dd6000 00000fff
> CR0=8005003b CR2=00000000ffffffff CR3=0000000001c0b000 CR4=000007f0
> DR0=0000000000000000 DR1=0000000000000000 DR2=0000000000000000
> DR3=0000000000000000
> DR6=00000000ffff0ff0 DR7=0000000000000400
> EFER=0000000000000d01
> Code=20 89 f9 48 09 c8 5d c3 66 90 55 89 f0 89 f9 48 89 e5 0f 30 <31> c0 5d
> c3 66 90 55 89 f9 48 89 e5 0f 33 89 c7 48 89 d0 48 c1 e0 20 89 f9 48 09 c8
> 5d c3
> 
> 
> This bug also appears in Westmere, SandyBridge and Haswell. But Nehalem,
> Penryn and Conroe runs OK.
> 
> Is this problem really a bug or some mistakes in configuration?

A bug, most probably. If you are able to reproduce using latest KVM, we
would have to look into details.

Jan

PS: KVM related error reports of QEMU should also go to the KVM list.
CC'ing it.

[1] https://git.kernel.org/cgit/virt/kvm/kvm.git/


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