Description of problem: RHEL6.0 guest, has a nested RHEL6.0 guest. The nested guest will start in paused mode. Pussing "play" produses the following error on the physical F17 host: nested_vmx_exit_handled failed vm entry 5 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): F17 64bit kernel 3.4.4-5.fc17.x86_64 qemu-kvm-1.0-17.fc17.x86_64 libvirt-daemon-config-network-0.9.11.4-3.fc17.x86_64 fence-virtd-libvirt-0.3.0-2.fc17.x86_64 libvirt-python-0.9.11.4-3.fc17.x86_64 libvirt-daemon-config-nwfilter-0.9.11.4-3.fc17.x86_64 libvirt-0.9.11.4-3.fc17.x86_64 libvirt-client-0.9.11.4-3.fc17.x86_64 libvirt-daemon-0.9.11.4-3.fc17.x86_64 How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 0. do all necessary steps to allow nested kvm guests on an intel processor host. 1. create a 64bit RHEL6.0 guest on a F17 host 2. launch a new 64bit RHEL6.0 guest inside the previous referenced RHEL6.0 guest 3. the nested RHEL6.0 never starts. Efforts to recover it from paused mode produce the mentioned message on the physical host Actual results: The nested guest remaing in paused mode Expected results: The nested guest should not remain in paused mode Additional info:
Error 5 - VMRESUME with non-launched VMCS. Strange. Does this occur with uniprocessor guests?
Hello, This happens with a single cpu nested guest, inside a single cpu guest. If I change the top level guest to have two logical cpu' the error on the physical hosts changes to: nested_vmx_exit_handled failed vm entry 7 Please kindly let me know of what other information is needed. I would be more then glad to assist on this.
In case it is needed this is the physical host's cpu info: [root .ssh]# cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 15 model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T7200 @ 2.00GHz stepping : 6 microcode : 0xc7 cpu MHz : 1000.000 cache size : 4096 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 2 core id : 0 cpu cores : 2 apicid : 0 initial apicid : 0 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 10 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm lahf_lm dts tpr_shadow bogomips : 3990.43 clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: processor : 1 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 15 model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T7200 @ 2.00GHz stepping : 6 microcode : 0xc7 cpu MHz : 1000.000 cache size : 4096 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 2 core id : 1 cpu cores : 2 apicid : 1 initial apicid : 1 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 10 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm lahf_lm dts tpr_shadow bogomips : 3990.43 clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management:
Theophanis, Out of curiosity, I'm wondering what your procedure is, when you say "0. do all necessary steps to allow nested kvm guests on an intel processor host." I previously tried once with F16, and here's my latest attempt with F17 (as both host and guest). I noted all the versions there. http://kashyapc.wordpress.com/2012/07/28/nested-virtualization-with-intel-take-2-with-fedora-17/ And the scripts I used to create them - http://kashyapc.fedorapeople.org/virt/nested-virt-with-intel-f17/ I'm wondering if you can give this a shot. (Note: this procedure uses only minimal OS(@core), so no X involved, yet it'll provide serial console access.)
FYI, kvm bugs should be tracked against qemu in F17. The kvm component is an historical left over and will eventually be purged from bugzilla.
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There's been many nested intel improvements that have landed by F19. If anyone can still reproduce on modern fedora, please open a new report.