On 10/04/19 20:26, Cole Robinson wrote: > On 11/20/18 6:44 AM, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote: >> * Paolo Bonzini (pbonz...@redhat.com) wrote: >>> Nested VMX does not support live migration yet. Add a blocker >>> until that is worked out. >>> >>> Nested SVM only does not support it, but unfortunately it is >>> enabled by default for -cpu host so we cannot really disable it. >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> >> >> So I'm OK with this, but it does need a release note warning whenever it >> goes in, because it'll surprise those who've already enabled nesting >> but don't use it on all their VMs. >> > > We are hitting this in Fedora 30. Now that nested VMX is enabled by > default at the kernel level, and virt-manager/boxes will use the > equivalent of -cpu host by default, libvirt managedsave (migrate to > file) and virt-manager snapshots (savevm) are rejected for default > created VMs on intel. That's quite unfortunate. > > Any ideas on how to resolve this?
I think the simplest solution is just to finish implementation of nested VMX live migration and backport it to Fedora 30. Paolo