@olivierlambert said in Windows 10 VM reboots when starting software:

If it's MSR related, you should see xl dmesg output when the VM crashes.

This is output from xl dmesg when machine crashes:

(XEN) [57920.851786] d10v1 Unknown Host LBR MSRs
(XEN) [57920.851789] domain_crash called from vmx.c#vmx_msr_write_intercept+0x4c2/0x510
(XEN) [57920.851790] Domain 10 (vcpu#1) crashed on cpu#8:
(XEN) [57920.851791] ----[ Xen-4.13.0-8.6.1.xcpng8.1  x86_64  debug=n   Not tainted ]----
(XEN) [57920.851792] CPU:    8
(XEN) [57920.851793] RIP:    0010:[<fffff8014a7de482>]
(XEN) [57920.851794] RFLAGS: 0000000000040002   CONTEXT: hvm guest (d10v1)
(XEN) [57920.851795] rax: 0000000000000001   rbx: 0000000000000000   rcx: 00000000000001d9
(XEN) [57920.851796] rdx: 0000000000000000   rsi: 0000000000000000   rdi: 00000000000000f0
(XEN) [57920.851797] rbp: fffff68839bd7b00   rsp: fffff68839bd7a78   r8:  0000000000000001
(XEN) [57920.851798] r9:  fffff68839bd75f8   r10: 0000000000000000   r11: ffffd50f3594a080
(XEN) [57920.851799] r12: 0000000002a4b528   r13: 00007ff907ec4900   r14: 00000000000000f0
(XEN) [57920.851799] r15: 0000000000000000   cr0: 0000000080050033   cr4: 0000000000370678
(XEN) [57920.851800] cr3: 0000000061fa4002   cr2: 000000000027425a
(XEN) [57920.851801] fsb: 0000000000000000   gsb: ffffb980e01d1000   gss: ffffb980e01d1000
(XEN) [57920.851802] ds: 002b   es: 002b   fs: 0053   gs: 002b   ss: 0018   cs: 0010

I installed a Windows 10 Home VM on XCP-ng 8.1. I'm going to use it for BlueIris NVR application.
Software is installed and all looks good, but when I start the application the VM just stops or reboots. No apparent messages in EventLog.

Googling for the same issue I see that other people had similar issues using Proxmox/KVM/QUEMU.
Solution seems to be to add the following to /etc/modprobe.d/kvm.conf:
options kvm ignore_msrs=1
I did try this on XCP-ng but no change.
Is there are similar setting for XCP-ng? To ignore MSRs or not to passthrough CPU features from the host?

@olivierlambert Thanks a lot, that's good news!
I'm very much up for testing so I'll keep an eye on the issue you created

@olivierlambert said in Windows 10 VM reboots when starting software:

You might have a Windows setting to prevent reboot in crash (or also with xe you can set the VM to not restart in case of crash).

Thanks for the output

I removed the mark that makes Windows boot in case of a crash, but same result. It just acts like it's a hypervisor crash and not a Windows crash.
How can I change the setting in xe? Can't seem to find that option in XO.

@olivierlambert said in Windows 10 VM reboots when starting software:

Can you do a copy/paste (eg in hastebin.com) the full output of xl dmesg from your dom0?

Here is the complete dmesg:
https://hastebin.com/ruvuqokiba.sql

@olivierlambert said in Windows 10 VM reboots when starting software:

Also, please share the BSOD screen if possible

Unfortunately no BSOD data available. No guest logs or entries in EventLog. There are never any BSOD shown in the client.
It just plain shuts off or reboots from XCP-ng.

@olivierlambert said in Windows 10 VM reboots when starting software:

If it's MSR related, you should see xl dmesg output when the VM crashes.

This is output from xl dmesg when machine crashes:

(XEN) [57920.851786] d10v1 Unknown Host LBR MSRs
(XEN) [57920.851789] domain_crash called from vmx.c#vmx_msr_write_intercept+0x4c2/0x510
(XEN) [57920.851790] Domain 10 (vcpu#1) crashed on cpu#8:
(XEN) [57920.851791] ----[ Xen-4.13.0-8.6.1.xcpng8.1  x86_64  debug=n   Not tainted ]----
(XEN) [57920.851792] CPU:    8
(XEN) [57920.851793] RIP:    0010:[<fffff8014a7de482>]
(XEN) [57920.851794] RFLAGS: 0000000000040002   CONTEXT: hvm guest (d10v1)
(XEN) [57920.851795] rax: 0000000000000001   rbx: 0000000000000000   rcx: 00000000000001d9
(XEN) [57920.851796] rdx: 0000000000000000   rsi: 0000000000000000   rdi: 00000000000000f0
(XEN) [57920.851797] rbp: fffff68839bd7b00   rsp: fffff68839bd7a78   r8:  0000000000000001
(XEN) [57920.851798] r9:  fffff68839bd75f8   r10: 0000000000000000   r11: ffffd50f3594a080
(XEN) [57920.851799] r12: 0000000002a4b528   r13: 00007ff907ec4900   r14: 00000000000000f0
(XEN) [57920.851799] r15: 0000000000000000   cr0: 0000000080050033   cr4: 0000000000370678
(XEN) [57920.851800] cr3: 0000000061fa4002   cr2: 000000000027425a
(XEN) [57920.851801] fsb: 0000000000000000   gsb: ffffb980e01d1000   gss: ffffb980e01d1000
(XEN) [57920.851802] ds: 002b   es: 002b   fs: 0053   gs: 002b   ss: 0018   cs: 0010

@olivierlambert said in Windows 10 VM reboots when starting software:

Also, is your Windows 10 got all the PV drivers/agent installed?

Yeah, did try with both the Guest tools from Citrix and the XCP-ng ones.

I installed a Windows 10 Home VM on XCP-ng 8.1. I'm going to use it for BlueIris NVR application.
Software is installed and all looks good, but when I start the application the VM just stops or reboots. No apparent messages in EventLog.

Googling for the same issue I see that other people had similar issues using Proxmox/KVM/QUEMU.
Solution seems to be to add the following to /etc/modprobe.d/kvm.conf:
options kvm ignore_msrs=1
I did try this on XCP-ng but no change.
Is there are similar setting for XCP-ng? To ignore MSRs or not to passthrough CPU features from the host?