[Libguestfs] Issue with libguestfs-test-tool on a guest hosted on VMWare ESXi

[Pino Toscano]

On Friday, 23 March 2018 07:10:00 CET Tanmoy Sinha wrote:
> I am using a debian 9 guest, hosted on a ESXi platform with nested
> virtualisation enabled.
> 
> On this debian 9 guest when I run libguesfs-test-tool, it fails with an
> error:
> 
>  "qemu-system-x86_64:
> /build/qemu-DqynNa/qemu-2.8+dfsg/target-i386/kvm.c:1805: kvm_put_msrs:
> Assertion `ret == cpu->kvm_msr_buf->nmsrs' failed."

See also https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1456407
This is basically a bug in VMware and the qemu bug
https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1661386
has a couple of hints about what it can be changed in VMware to avoid
this situation.

-- 
Pino Toscano
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 833 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part.
URL: <http://listman.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/attachments/20180323/2366cf3e/attachment.sig>