Re: vmd alpine vm boots on one openbsd76 system but not the other

Divan Santana [divan@santanas.co.za] wrote:
> Greetings :)
>
> So I have two openbsd76 systems. A backup and primary.
>
> This alpine vm boots on the backup but not the primary.
>
> I have copied the vm between the two and done an md5 on both sides and
> the file is identical. For some reason it boots on the backup server
> but not the primary server.
>
> Here is console output of the failed boot. Any idea what the below means?
>
>
> [ 0.509998] Loaded X.509 cert 'alpinelinux.org: Alpine Linux kernel key: d76a695f66ad9cd28f5c22a8508f36e91f521f7a'
> [ 0.509998] Demotion targets for Node 0: null
> [ 0.509998] Key type .fscrypt registered
> [ 0.509998] Key type fscrypt-provisioning registered
> [ 0.509998] Unstable clock detected, switching default tracing clock to "global"
> [ 0.509998] If you want to keep using the local clock, then add:
> [ 0.509998] "trace_clock=local"
> [ 0.509998] on the kernel command line
> [ 0.509998] clk: Disabling unused clocks
> [ 0.509998] PM: genpd: Disabling unused power domains
> [ 0.509998] Freeing unused kernel image (initmem) memory: 3572K
> [ 0.509998] Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 22528k
> [ 0.509998] Freeing unused kernel image (rodata/data gap) memory: 584K
> [ 0.509998] Run /init as init process
> [ 0.509998] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> [ 0.509998] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at arch/x86/kernel/fpu/xstate.c:1009 get_xsave_addr_user+0x34/0x50

Try passing noxsave to the linux kernel during boot. Maybe vmm is not properly handling some of these CPU flags.

>
> dmesg below:
>
> cpu0: AMD Ryzen 9 7900 12-Core Processor, 3700.01 MHz, 19-61-02, patch 0a601209
> cpu0: cpuid 1 edx=178bfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,HTT> ecx=76d8320b<SSE3,PCLMUL,MWAIT,SSSE3,FMA3,CX16,SSE4.1,SSE4.2,MOVBE,POPCNT,AES,XSAVE,AVX,F16C,RDRAND>
> cpu0: cpuid 6 eax=4<ARAT> ecx=1<EFFFREQ>
> cpu0: cpuid 7.0 ebx=f1bf97a9<FSGSBASE,BMI1,AVX2,SMEP,BMI2,ERMS,INVPCID,PQM,AVX512F,AVX512DQ,RDSEED,ADX,SMAP,AVX512IFMA,CLFLUSHOPT,CLWB,AVX512CD,SHA,AVX512BW,AVX512VL> ecx=405fce<AVX512VBMI,UMIP,PKU> edx=10000010<L1DF>
> cpu0: cpuid d.1 eax=f<XSAVEOPT,XSAVEC,XGETBV1,XSAVES>
> cpu0: cpuid 80000001 edx=2fd3fbff<NXE,MMXX,FFXSR,PAGE1GB,RDTSCP,LONG> ecx=75c237ff<LAHF,CMPLEG,SVM,EAPICSP,AMCR8,ABM,SSE4A,MASSE,3DNOWP,OSVW,IBS,SKINIT,TCE,TOPEXT,CPCTR,DBKP,PCTRL3,MWAITX>
> cpu0: cpuid 80000007 edx=6799<HWPSTATE,ITSC>
> cpu0: cpuid 80000008 ebx=791ef257<IBPB,IBRS,STIBP,STIBP_ALL,IBRS_PREF,IBRS_SM,SSBD>
> cpu0: cpuid 8000001F eax=1<SME>

Are the working and non-working servers the same?