Created attachment 1249481 [details]
Output of 'virsh capabilities' and /proc/cpuinfo for the guest and host

Description of problem: 

Starting a VM with 'Westmere' CPU Model inside a VM created with 'Westmere' CPU model, fails using a host which has a (real) Broadwell CPU: 

qemu-kvm: /builddir/build/BUILD/qemu-2.6.0/target-i386/kvm.c:1736: kvm_put_msrs: Assertion `ret == n' failed.

The setup used:

Layer 0(host):
Intel Broadwell CPU
4.8.15-200.fc24.x86_64
qemu-kvm-2.6.2-5.fc24.x86_64

Layer 1(guest):
started with: '-cpu Westmere,+vmx'

cat /proc/cpuinfo reports:
flags		: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall nx lm constant_tsc rep_good nopl pni pclmulqdq vmx ssse3 cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic popcnt aes hypervisor lahf_lm arat tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid

Attempting to start a VM, again with '-cpu Westmere,+vmx' inside the guest fails with:

2017-02-12 09:34:35.729+0000: starting up libvirt version: 2.0.0, package: 10.el7_3.4 (CentOS BuildSystem <http://bugs.centos.org>, 2017-01-17-23:37:48, c1bm.rdu2.centos.org), qemu version: 2.6.0 (qemu-kvm-ev-2.6.0-28.el7_3.3.1), hostname: vm-el73.lago.local
LC_ALL=C PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=none /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -name guest=a84c9822-vm-el73,debug-threads=on -S -object secret,id=masterKey0,format=raw,file=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/domain-3-a84c9822-vm-el73/master-key.aes -machine pc-i440fx-rhel7.3.0,accel=kvm,usb=off -cpu Westmere,+vmx -m 1024 -realtime mlock=off -smp 2,sockets=2,cores=1,threads=1 -object iothread,id=iothread1 -uuid 1c162b0a-3da3-4f6b-a80a-1d2fc615e00a -nographic -no-user-config -nodefaults -chardev socket,id=charmonitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/domain-3-a84c9822-vm-el73/monitor.sock,server,nowait -mon chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=control -rtc base=utc -no-shutdown -boot menu=off,strict=on -device virtio-serial-pci,id=virtio-serial0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3 -drive file=/home/ngoldin/.lago/default/images/vm-el73_root.qcow2,format=qcow2,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk0,serial=1,discard=unmap -device virtio-blk-pci,scsi=off,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4,drive=drive-virtio-disk0,id=virtio-disk0,bootindex=1 -netdev tap,fd=26,id=hostnet0,vhost=on,vhostfd=28 -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=hostnet0,id=net0,mac=54:52:c0:a5:00:02,bus=pci.0,addr=0x2 -chardev pty,id=charserial0 -device isa-serial,chardev=charserial0,id=serial0 -chardev socket,id=charchannel0,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/channel/target/domain-3-a84c9822-vm-el73/org.qemu.guest_agent.0,server,nowait -device virtserialport,bus=virtio-serial0.0,nr=1,chardev=charchannel0,id=channel0,name=org.qemu.guest_agent.0 -object rng-random,id=objrng0,filename=/dev/random -device virtio-rng-pci,rng=objrng0,id=rng0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x9 -msg timestamp=on
char device redirected to /dev/pts/1 (label charserial0)
qemu-kvm: /builddir/build/BUILD/qemu-2.6.0/target-i386/kvm.c:1736: kvm_put_msrs: Assertion `ret == n' failed.
2017-02-12 09:34:36.071+0000: shutting down



Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

Host:
Linux 4.8.15-200.fc24.x86_64
qemu-kvm-2.6.2-5.fc24.x86_64
libvirt-1.3.3.2-1.fc24.x86_64

Guest:
Linux 3.10.0-514.2.2.el7.x86_64
qemu-kvm-ev-2.6.0-28.el7_3.3.1.x86_64
libvirt-2.0.0-10.el7_3.4.x86_64


How reproducible:
100% (with the described setup)


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start a VM on a Broadwell host, with '-cpu Westmere,+vmx'
2. Attempt to start another VM inside the created VM in stage 1, again with '-cpu Westmere,+vmx'



Actual results:
qemu-kvm fails to start with:
qemu-kvm: /builddir/build/BUILD/qemu-2.6.0/target-i386/kvm.c:1736: kvm_put_msrs: Assertion ret == n' failed.`


Expected results:
qemu-kvm will start the VM properly.


Additional info:
1. In the attached files are the outputs of 'virsh capabilities' and 'cat /proc/cpuinfo' for the host and guest.

2. Also, libguestfs fails to start an appliance using KVM in the guest with the same error(from that I assume this is not related to libvirt).

3. We had reports of the same issue with Skylake CPU family.