@Boris - in your log I've seen that you also got the Penryn cpu which I find odd. "-cpu Penryn,vme=on,vmx=on,x2apic=on,tsc-deadline=on,xsave=on,hypervisor=on,arat=on,tsc-adjust=on,arch-capabilities=on,skip-l1dfl-vmentry=on \" Assuming you also only used default I wonder how it got to that, maybe the reason for that is the same reason that eventually triggers the error. But virt-manager/libvirt would usually just do a best-fit (for me Haswell-noTSX-IBRS).
@Boris and @tstrike Could you both please report: $ virsh capabilities $ virsh domcapabilities $ sudo qemu-system-x86_64 --enable-kvm --nographic --nodefaults -S -qmp-pretty stdio {"execute":"qmp_capabilities"} {"execute":"query-cpu-definitions"} Note: the command seems to hang as you are on QMP, then just enter the two commands below one by one. This will add "qemu's explanation why a given cpu is usable or not" -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1866870 Title: KVM Guest pauses after upgrade to Ubuntu 20.04 Status in QEMU: New Status in qemu package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Symptom: Error unpausing domain: internal error: unable to execute QEMU command 'cont': Resetting the Virtual Machine is required Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/asyncjob.py", line 75, in cb_wrapper callback(asyncjob, *args, **kwargs) File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/asyncjob.py", line 111, in tmpcb callback(*args, **kwargs) File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/object/libvirtobject.py", line 66, in newfn ret = fn(self, *args, **kwargs) File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/object/domain.py", line 1311, in resume self._backend.resume() File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/libvirt.py", line 2174, in resume if ret == -1: raise libvirtError ('virDomainResume() failed', dom=self) libvirt.libvirtError: internal error: unable to execute QEMU command 'cont': Resetting the Virtual Machine is required --- As outlined here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1813165/comments/15 After upgrade, all KVM guests are in a default pause state. Even after forcing them off via virsh, and restarting them the guests are paused. These Guests are not nested. A lot of diganostic information are outlined in the previous bug report link provided. The solution mentioned in previous report had been allegedly integrated into the downstream updates. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1866870/+subscriptions