Re: kvm_intel fails to load on Conroe CPUs running Linux 4.12

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 05/08/2017 21:26, Sebastian Rachuj wrote:
> Dear linux developers,
> 
> since my upgrade from linux 4.11 to linux 4.12 the "kvm_intel" module
> does not load correctly anymore. "Modprobing" the kernel module gives an
> Input/Output error. It seems to be related to the CPU architecture and
> (to my knowledge) affects Conroe CPUs. I did a bisect and found the
> following commit as the guilty one:

What is your cpuinfo?  I tested on a Conroe Xeon X3220 (family 6,
model 15, stepping 11) when I posted that patch, and it did have virtual
NMIs.

Paolo