Re: [PATCH] KVM: VMX: Enable MSR-BASED TPR shadow even if w/o APICv

From: Wanpeng Li
Date: Thu Sep 22 2016 - 02:48:49 EST


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>> Btw, I heard from Tianyu from Intel, you said there was a x2apic bug
>> in kvm forum and the bug maybe in kvm, I guess I meet the same bug
>> when run a windows guest(server version of windows 7, 2008 or 2012) w/
>> x2apic enabled in guest and -machine q35,kernel_irqchip=spit -device
>> intel-iommu, intremap=on in the QEMU command line.
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> Does it happen when you are running less than 8 VCPUs (max APIC ID < 8)?
> QEMU always enabled x2APIC support in IOMMU (EIME) even though it
> doesn't work under some configurations.

I'm digging into the bug currently. :ï

Regards,
Wanpeng Li