Re: [BUG] kvm: guest can not startup due to triple fault

From: Avi Kivity
Date: Tue Oct 19 2010 - 11:05:12 EST


On 10/19/2010 04:56 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
Right... note in particular that the BIOS sets them up inconsistently. The kernel is doing the rufht thing: since NX isn't available on all processors it is considered unavailable.

I guess kvm should be modified to mask GET_SUPPORTED_CPUID results with the boot_cpu features. This will make kvm take advantage of the core kernel doing the right thing.

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