changing the guest config to enable paravirt seems to do the trick! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1037675
Title: Guest Kernel Panic if using "-cpu host" in qemu-kvm 1.1.1 Status in QEMU: New Bug description: After Upgrading to qemu-kvm-1.1.1-r1 from version 1.0.1-r1 my virtual machines (running gentoo linux) panic at intel_pmu_init. (detailed information including stacktrace are in the uploaded screenshot). When i remove the "-cpu host" option, the system starts normally. the command line from whicht the system is bootet: qemu-kvm -vnc :7 -usbdevice tablet -daemonize -m 256 -drive file=/data/virtual_machines/wgs-l08.img,if=virtio -boot c -k de -net nic,model=virtio,macaddr=12:12:00:12:34:63,vlan=0 -net tap,ifname=qtap6,script=no,downscript=no,vlan=0 -smp 2 -enable-kvm -cpu host -monitor unix:/var/run/qemu- kvm/wgs-l08.monitor,server,nowait also reported on gentoo bug tracker (with some more details of the host): https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=431640 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1037675/+subscriptions
