Because of the microcode update to Haswell/Broadwell CPUs, existing domains using these CPUs may fail to start even though they used to run just fine. To help users solve this issue we try to suggest switching to -noTSX variant of the CPU model: virsh # start cd error: Failed to start domain cd error: unsupported configuration: guest and host CPU are not compatible: Host CPU does not provide required features: rtm, hle; try using 'Haswell-noTSX' CPU model Signed-off-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar(a)redhat.com&gt; --- This patch depends on the previous patch which introduces the new *-noTSX models. src/qemu/qemu_command.c | 38 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 33 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_command.c b/src/qemu/qemu_command.c index 7e6b95c..cabb8b2 100644 --- a/src/qemu/qemu_command.c +++ b/src/qemu/qemu_command.c @@ -6807,6 +6807,7 @@ qemuBuildCpuModelArgStr(virQEMUDriverPtr driver, size_t ncpus = 0; char **cpus = NULL; virCPUDataPtr data = NULL; + virCPUDataPtr hostData = NULL; char *compare_msg = NULL; virCPUCompareResult cmp; const char *preferred; @@ -6838,16 +6839,42 @@ qemuBuildCpuModelArgStr(virQEMUDriverPtr driver, /* For non-KVM, CPU features are emulated, so host compat doesn't matter */ if (compareAgainstHost) { + bool noTSX = false; + cmp = cpuGuestData(host, cpu, &data, &compare_msg); switch (cmp) { case VIR_CPU_COMPARE_INCOMPATIBLE: + if (cpuEncode(host->arch, host, NULL, &hostData, + NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL) == 0 && + (!cpuHasFeature(hostData, "hle") || + !cpuHasFeature(hostData, "rtm")) && + (STREQ_NULLABLE(cpu->model, "Haswell") || + STREQ_NULLABLE(cpu->model, "Broadwell"))) + noTSX = true; + if (compare_msg) { - virReportError(VIR_ERR_CONFIG_UNSUPPORTED, - _("guest and host CPU are not compatible: %s"), - compare_msg); + if (noTSX) { + virReportError(VIR_ERR_CONFIG_UNSUPPORTED, + _("guest and host CPU are not compatible: " + "%s; try using '%s-noTSX' CPU model"), + compare_msg, cpu->model); + } else { + virReportError(VIR_ERR_CONFIG_UNSUPPORTED, + _("guest and host CPU are not compatible: " + "%s"), + compare_msg); + } } else { - virReportError(VIR_ERR_CONFIG_UNSUPPORTED, "%s", - _("guest CPU is not compatible with host CPU")); + if (noTSX) { + virReportError(VIR_ERR_CONFIG_UNSUPPORTED, + _("guest CPU is not compatible with host " + "CPU; try using '%s-noTSX' CPU model"), + cpu->model); + } else { + virReportError(VIR_ERR_CONFIG_UNSUPPORTED, "%s", + _("guest CPU is not compatible with host " + "CPU")); + } } /* fall through */ case VIR_CPU_COMPARE_ERROR: @@ -6941,6 +6968,7 @@ qemuBuildCpuModelArgStr(virQEMUDriverPtr driver, virObjectUnref(caps); VIR_FREE(compare_msg); cpuDataFree(data); + cpuDataFree(hostData); virCPUDefFree(guest); virCPUDefFree(cpu); return ret; -- 2.3.3