Intel hosts, without long mode, and with nx support disabled in the bios have an efer that is readable but not writable. This causes a lockup on switch to guest mode (even though it should exit with reason 34 according to the documentation).
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index: linux-2.6/drivers/kvm/vmx.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/kvm/vmx.c +++ linux-2.6/drivers/kvm/vmx.c @@ -1128,6 +1128,8 @@ static int vmx_vcpu_setup(struct kvm_vcp if (rdmsr_safe(index, &data_low, &data_high) < 0) continue; + if (wrmsr_safe(index, data_low, data_high) < 0) + continue; data = data_low | ((u64)data_high << 32); vcpu->host_msrs[j].index = index; vcpu->host_msrs[j].reserved = 0; - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/