Description of problem: Starting with kernel kernel-3.5.3-1.fc17.x86_64 I can't use qemu-kvm on my machines. After hang qemu-kvm process is stopped, unable to continue with booting. Reverting back to kernel 3.5.2 works for me as workaround. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-3.5.3-1.fc17.x86_64 kernel-3.5.4-1.fc17.x86_64 Latest working kernel: kernel-3.5.2-3.fc17.x86_64 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. qemu-kvm -m 1024 Actual results: Error message in terminal: KVM: entry failed, hardware error 0x80000021 If you're running a guest on an Intel machine without unrestricted mode support, the failure can be most likely due to the guest entering an invalid state for Intel VT. For example, the guest maybe running in big real mode which is not supported on less recent Intel processors. EAX=00000011 EBX=00000000 ECX=00000030 EDX=00007baa ESI=c007df0a EDI=000385c8 EBP=00000000 ESP=00007baa EIP=00000370 EFL=00010006 [-----P-] CPL=0 II=0 A20=1 SMM=0 HLT=0 ES =0030 0009c6f0 ffffffff 0000f300 DPL=3 DS16 [-WA] CS =9be0 0009be30 0000ffff 00009b00 DPL=0 CS16 [-RA] SS =0000 00000000 0000ffff 00009300 DPL=0 DS16 [-WA] DS =0030 0009c6f0 ffffffff 0000f300 DPL=3 DS16 [-WA] FS =0030 0009c6f0 ffffffff 0000f300 DPL=3 DS16 [-WA] GS =0030 0009c6f0 ffffffff 0000f300 DPL=3 DS16 [-WA] LDT=0000 00000000 0000ffff 00008200 DPL=0 LDT TR =0000 00000000 0000ffff 00008b00 DPL=0 TSS32-busy GDT= 0009c730 00000037 IDT= 00000000 0000ffff CR0=00000011 CR2=00000000 CR3=00000000 CR4=00000000 DR0=0000000000000000 DR1=0000000000000000 DR2=0000000000000000 DR3=0000000000000000 DR6=00000000ffff0ff0 DR7=0000000000000400 EFER=0000000000000000 Code=66 0f 01 16 40 00 66 0f 01 1e 78 00 0f 20 c0 0c 01 0f 22 c0 <66> ea a4 00 00 00 08 00 0f 20 c0 24 fe 0f 22 c0 ff 2e 7e 00 2e a1 14 08 8e d8 8e c0 8e e0 KVM curses output in emulation: SeaBIOS (version 1.7.0-20120528_224116-x86-16.phx2.fedoraproject.org) iPXE (http://ipxe.org) 00:03.0 C900 PCI2.10 PnP PMM+3FFC9CA0+3FF89CA0 C900 Booting from Hard Disk... Boot failed: could not read the boot disk Booting from DVD/CD... Boot failed: Could not read from CDROM (code 0003) Booting from ROM... iPXE (PCI 00:03.0) starting execution... Expected results: no error and continue of working qemu
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 854983 ***