[PATCH wiki v2] Add kvm.ignore_msrs=1 into host grub.

Terrence Xu terrence.xu at intel.com
Thu Feb 23 02:56:17 UTC 2017


Since some windows guest 3rd patry application / tools will trigger
MSR read / write directly, if it access the unhandled msr register,
guest will trigger BSOD soon. So we added the "kvm.ignore_msrs=1"
into grub for workaround.

Signed-off-by: Terrence Xu <terrence.xu at intel.com>
---
 GVTg_Setup_Guide.md | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/GVTg_Setup_Guide.md b/GVTg_Setup_Guide.md
index 143ff96..88074da 100644
--- a/GVTg_Setup_Guide.md
+++ b/GVTg_Setup_Guide.md
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ Make sure the “i915.enable_gvt=1” exist in host grub.cfg, use  Ubuntu as exa
         else
             search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 106518cd-fb74-4048-81de-3ecee7ad74d4
         fi
-            linux   /boot/vgt/host-gvt root=UUID=106518cd-fb74-4048-81de-3ecee7ad74d4 ro ignore_loglevel log_buf_len=128M console=ttyS0,115200,8n1 i915.enable_gvt=1
+            linux   /boot/vgt/host-gvt root=UUID=106518cd-fb74-4048-81de-3ecee7ad74d4 ro ignore_loglevel log_buf_len=128M console=ttyS0,115200,8n1 i915.enable_gvt=1 kvm.ignore_msrs=1
             initrd  /boot/vgt/initrd-gvt.img
     }
 
@@ -315,4 +315,4 @@ We sugguest to use the secondary gfx card mode (virtual "qxl" or "cirrus" gfx ca
   - Media:
     * Multiple thread decode/transcode for JPEG, MPEG2, H264, HEVC, VC1, VP8, etc
   - OpenCL:
-    * LuxMark, Beignet
\ No newline at end of file
+    * LuxMark, Beignet
-- 
1.9.1



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