intel-microcode highly recommended [was: Re: kvm errors with 4.9.0-9 kernel.]

On Du, 19 mai 19, 09:34:06, John J. Rushford wrote: > > Thanks very much for the response.  No, I did not have the intel-microcode > package installed but, I decided to try it.  After reading through the > debian microcode wiki, I installed the package while running on and using > the 4.9.0-9 kern

Re: kvm errors with 4.9.0-9 kernel.

Hi. On Sat, May 18, 2019 at 09:22:19PM -0600, John J. Rushford wrote: > Greetings, > > I recently updated my debian 9.9 machine which installed the 4.9.0-9 > kernel.  With this kernel,  the kvm_intel modules fail to load due to > the following > errors: > > kernel: [    6.234764] kvm_int

Re: kvm errors with 4.9.0-9 kernel.

Good Day John, I tried to reproduce the problem on my side, using KVM accelerated with the module kvm_intel from Debian native kernel 4.9.0-9-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.168-1+deb9u2 (2019-05-13). I encountered the following trace in my `dmesg` output, which is only remotely related to kvm_intel:

Re: kvm errors with 4.9.0-9 kernel.

Etienne, Thanks very much for the response.  No, I did not have the intel-microcode package installed but, I decided to try it.  After reading through the debian microcode wiki, I installed the package while running on and using the 4.9.0-9 kernel.  After rebooting, I found that this did no

Re: kvm errors with 4.9.0-9 kernel.

John J. Rushford, on 2019-05-19: > Greetings, Good Day John, This: > kernel: [6.234764] kvm_intel: Unknown symbol cpu_tlbstate (err -22) > kernel: [6.235463] kvm_intel: Unknown symbol mds_user_clear (err 0) > kernel: [6.330732] kvm_intel: disagrees about version of symbol > cpu_tlbs

kvm errors with 4.9.0-9 kernel.

Greetings, I recently updated my debian 9.9 machine which installed the 4.9.0-9 kernel.  With this kernel,  the kvm_intel modules fail to load due to the following errors: kernel: [    6.234764] kvm_intel: Unknown symbol cpu_tlbstate (err -22) kernel: [    6.235463] kvm_intel: Unknown symbol