Ok, upstream tag v4.2.0 and these configure options reproduced the crash: export LDFLAGS="-Wl,--warn-common -Wl,-z,relro -Wl,-z,now -pie -m64 -g -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -Wl,-z,relro -Wl,--as-needed" export CFLAGS="-O2 -U_FORTIFY_SOURCE -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g"
Full configure output: https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/Tzq6pDWD9R/ $ ./x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64 --enable-kvm -cpu Penryn,vmx=on -m 512 --nodefaults --nographic qemu-system-x86_64: warning: host doesn't support requested feature: CPUID.01H:ECX.sse4.1 [bit 19] qemu-system-x86_64: warning: host doesn't support requested feature: MSR(48EH).vmx-vnmi-pending [bit 22] qemu-system-x86_64: warning: host doesn't support requested feature: MSR(48EH).vmx-secondary-ctls [bit 31] qemu-system-x86_64: warning: host doesn't support requested feature: MSR(48BH).vmx-apicv-xapic [bit 0] qemu-system-x86_64: warning: host doesn't support requested feature: MSR(48BH).vmx-wbinvd-exit [bit 6] qemu-system-x86_64: warning: host doesn't support requested feature: MSR(48DH).vmx-vnmi [bit 5] qemu-system-x86_64: warning: host doesn't support requested feature: MSR(48FH).vmx-exit-load-perf-global-ctrl [bit 12] qemu-system-x86_64: warning: host doesn't support requested feature: MSR(490H).vmx-entry-load-perf-global-ctrl [bit 13] qemu-system-x86_64: warning: host doesn't support requested feature: MSR(480H).vmx-ins-outs [bit 54] KVM internal error. Suberror: 1 emulation failure EAX=00000000 EBX=00000000 ECX=000086d4 EDX=00000000 ESI=00000000 EDI=00000000 EBP=000086d4 ESP=00006d7c EIP=00007acf EFL=00000002 [-------] CPL=0 II=0 A20=1 SMM=0 HLT=0 ES =0000 00000000 ffffffff 00809300 CS =f000 000f0000 ffffffff 00809b00 SS =0000 00000000 ffffffff 00809300 DS =0000 00000000 ffffffff 00809300 FS =0000 00000000 ffffffff 00809300 GS =0000 00000000 ffffffff 00809300 LDT=0000 00000000 0000ffff 00008200 TR =0000 00000000 0000ffff 00008b00 GDT= 000f6200 00000037 IDT= 00000000 000003ff CR0=00000010 CR2=00000000 CR3=00000000 CR4=00000000 DR0=0000000000000000 DR1=0000000000000000 DR2=0000000000000000 DR3=0000000000000000 DR6=00000000ffff0ff0 DR7=0000000000000400 EFER=0000000000000000 Code=b8 90 d9 00 00 66 e8 6b f7 ff ff 66 b8 0a 00 00 00 e9 61 f2 <f3> 0f 1e fb 66 57 66 56 66 53 66 53 66 89 c7 67 66 89 14 24 66 89 ce 66 e8 15 f8 ff ff 88 ^Cqemu-system-x86_64: terminating on signal 2 -- 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