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Subject: Re: Issues with bhyve under KVM
To: Cory Smelosky <corys@ixsystems.com>
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From: Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org>
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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.

> 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.

later,

Peter.