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Re: [Qemu-devel] [Question] Seabios HANGs when mmio wirte in a nested vm


From: Xiao Guangrong
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [Question] Seabios HANGs when mmio wirte in a nested vmware host wtih virito-scsi controller
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2017 15:48:27 +0800
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On 07/17/2017 03:34 PM, Xulei (Stone) wrote:

    On 07/17/2017 11:13 AM, Xulei (Stone) wrote:

     >>                              |--virtio_queue_empty
     >>
     >> Then, kmod falls in infinite loop in handle EPT_MISCONFIG.
     >> As far as i know, when kvm enters guest after handling EPT_MISCONFIG, 
seabios should return
     >> from mmio write and wait for virtio backend(qemu) to handle this mmio 
writing.
     >> What puzzles me:
     >> 1) i can not understand why kvm runs in infinite loop and seabios does 
not return from writew.

       >From the trace in L1 guest, it did not hang in KVM, as it went into 
guest mode normally.

     >> 2) kvm nested kvm is ok. But vmware nested kvm is not ok. This problem 
has anything related
     >>     with vmware?
     >>

     > It is the issue in vmware, i guess the RIP register is not handled 
correctly.
     > BTW, does kvm unit tests run well on nested vmware?

    Sadly, kvm unit tests run fail on nested vmware and make the  CentOS 
7.3(with kmod 4.4.11) crashed...


Well, so that should be reported to vmware. :-)



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