I'm running libvert on a Debian 7 system. I have upgraded libvert and qemu from source (v1.06 and 1.5.0 respectively) and the problem persists. The guest OS is also a Debian 7 system running a non-SMP kernel. The error message from virt-manager is
Error starting domain: unsupported configuration: guest and host CPU are not compatible: Host CPU does not provide required features: rtm, invpcid, erms, bmi2, smep, avx2, hle, bmi1, fsgsbase, pcid
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/asyncjob.py", line 45, in cb_wrapper
callback(asyncjob, *args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/asyncjob.py", line 66, in tmpcb
callback(*args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/domain.py", line 1114, in startup
self._backend.create()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/libvirt.py", line 698, in create
if ret == -1: raise libvirtError ('virDomainCreate() failed', dom=self)
libvirtError: unsupported configuration: guest and host CPU are not compatible: Host CPU does not provide required features: rtm, invpcid, erms, bmi2, smep, avx2, hle, bmi1, fsgsbase, pcid
but the host /proc/cpuinfo gives the correct flags as
processor : 7
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 60
model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4770 CPU @ 3.40GHz
stepping : 3
microcode : 0x7
cpu MHz : 800.000
cache size : 8192 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 8
core id : 3
cpu cores : 4
apicid : 7
initial apicid : 7
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 13
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc aperfmperf eagerfpu pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 fma cx16 xtpr pdcm pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic movbe popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm abm ida arat epb xsaveopt pln pts dtherm tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid fsgsbase tsc_adjust bmi1 hle avx2 smep bmi2 erms invpcid rtm
bogomips : 6795.91
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 39 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:
Is there a place in the code I can look where the CPU flags are checked? I did create this VM on the Debian 7 versions of libvirt and qemu, but I don't see that it should be much of a problem since you can swap CPUs in virt-manager.
The end goal is to read Sandy Bridge+ RAPL MSRs from the guest OS. perf_events are now being exported, which is great for my work, but if I could read some of those RAPL MSRs, It would make my life orders of magnitude easier.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Best,
Michael Giardino