[Qemu-devel] [Bug 1307225] Re: Running a virtual machine on a Haswell system produces machine check events

[Tobias-leupold]

>From Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt:

   mce=bootlog
        Enable logging of machine checks left over from booting.
        Disabled by default on AMD because some BIOS leave bogus ones.
        If your BIOS doesn't do that it's a good idea to enable though
        to make sure you log even machine check events that result
        in a reboot. On Intel systems it is enabled by default.
   mce=nobootlog
        Disable boot machine check logging.

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Title:
  Running a virtual machine on a Haswell system produces machine check
  events

Status in QEMU:
  New

Bug description:
  I'm running a virtual Windows SBS 2003 installation on a Xeon E3
  Haswell system running Gentoo Linux. First, I used Qemu 1.5.3 (the
  latest stable version on Gentoo). I got a lot of machine check events
  ("mce: [Hardware Error]: Machine check events logged") in dmesg that
  always looked like (using mcelog):

  Hardware event. This is not a software error.
  MCE 0
  CPU 3 BANK 0
  TIME 1397455091 Mon Apr 14 07:58:11 2014
  MCG status:
  MCi status:
  Corrected error
  Error enabled
  MCA: Internal parity error
  STATUS 90000040000f0005 MCGSTATUS 0
  MCGCAP c09 APICID 6 SOCKETID 0
  CPUID Vendor Intel Family 6 Model 60

  I found this discussion on the vmware community:
  https://communities.vmware.com/thread/452344

  It seems that this is (at least partly) caused by the Qemu machine. I
  switched to Qemu 1.7.0, the first version to use "pc-i440fx-1.7". With
  this version, the errors almost disappeared, but from time to time, I
  still get machine check events. Anyways, they so not seem to affect
  neither the vm, nor the host.

  The Haswell machine has been set up and running for several days
  without a single error message. They only appear when the VM is
  running. so I think this is actually some problem with the Haswell
  architecture (and not a real hardware error).

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