Re: [GIT PULL] KVM updates for Linux 3.5

From: Marcelo Tosatti
Date: Fri May 25 2012 - 11:45:10 EST


On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 12:13:15PM +0200, Sasha Levin wrote:
> Hi Avi,
>
> On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >      KVM guest: make kvm_para_available() check hypervisor bit reading
> > cpuid leaf
>
> I've reported this patch to cause a hang on hypervisors that don't set
> the hypervisor bit. Can we somehow fix that before this patch actually
> goes into mainline?

Should set the hypervisor bit (see kvm-devel reply) otherwise there are
known causes for crashes.

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