Issues with bhyve under KVM

[Cory Smelosky]

On 2015-10-21 23:15, Peter Grehan wrote:
> Hi Cory,
> 
>> `dmesg` prints a message saying that VT-x is "disabled by BIOS" (I
>> passed -L and -bios pointed at OVMF just in case it was a strange
>> SEABIOS compile option) to no change.  -cpu is set to host, I have 
>> also
>> tried passing -cpu qemu64,+vmx manually to no change.
> 
>  That's not strictly true, and in this case harmless. I'll make sure
> that is fixed.

Ahhh.  Yeah - misleading errors are annoying!

> 
>> Oct 14 06:13:19  kernel: vmx_init: processor does not support desired
>> basic capabilities
> 
>  bhyve expects that the CPU supports INS/OUTS exits. This is signalled
> in bit 54 of the VMX_BASIC MSR. I'll have a talk with Neel about the
> implications of ignoring this bit.

Hmm.  Does Linux KVM ignore it?

(does -host not emulate all MSRs?)

> 
> later,
> 
> Peter.

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