[vfio-users] VFIO and random host crashes

[Colin Godsey]

Hmm, yeah I suppose there is still a lot of interaction with the
motherboard as far as device handling/passthrough- could be you maybe had a
chipset issue somewhere that would make the CPU hang.

There’s also a chance that my new BIOS had a fix unrelated to the microcode
that fixed my issues =\ I think my biggest issue was going with a really
new chipset/architecture on consumer-grade mobo. I’m probably one of a few
handfuls of people using VT-d on this board, and I’m guessing it might be
easy to overlook for other manufacturers as well. Or it was just the
skylake bug =\

I think my issue is fixed though. I finally turned off my host after about
3 days of running constantly- worried the paint on the wall behind it might
start peeling from the heat

On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 7:26 AM <zycorax at phoxden.xyz> wrote:

> For what is worth I upgraded my motherboard to the latest BIOS version
> available (3101, iirc) which supposedly brings fixes "stability issues".
> I have then tried to rebuild my previous environment step by step and so
> far have NOT experienced any issue. I used to use the same intel
> microcode that I use now, so I don't see this change in behavior but due
> to the motherboard's firmware upgrade.
>
>   Zycorax Tokoroa
>
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