CentOS VM won't boot when CPU Mode = QEMU64, but CPU Mode = host passthrough boots with kernel problems (kernel:Dazed and confused, but trying to continue)

[vmunich]

I created a new VM, it looks like this:

 

 

It installed fine, I have CentOS 7 + cPanel running on it. It is running on my cache SSD so it boots up super quick.

 

The problem starts when I logged on it from SSH. I get error messages like this every second:

[root@mrlb1b myscripts]#
Message from syslogd@mrlb1b at Jul  5 15:11:32 ...
 kernel:Uhhuh. NMI received for unknown reason 21 on CPU 0.

Message from syslogd@mrlb1b at Jul  5 15:11:32 ...
 kernel:Do you have a strange power saving mode enabled?

Message from syslogd@mrlb1b at Jul  5 15:11:32 ...
 kernel:Dazed and confused, but trying to continue

Message from syslogd@mrlb1b at Jul  5 15:12:02 ...
 kernel:Uhhuh. NMI received for unknown reason 31 on CPU 0.

Message from syslogd@mrlb1b at Jul  5 15:12:02 ...
 kernel:Do you have a strange power saving mode enabled?

Message from syslogd@mrlb1b at Jul  5 15:12:02 ...
 kernel:Dazed and confused, but trying to continue

Message from syslogd@mrlb1b at Jul  5 15:12:32 ...
 kernel:Uhhuh. NMI received for unknown reason 21 on CPU 0.

Message from syslogd@mrlb1b at Jul  5 15:12:32 ...
 kernel:Do you have a strange power saving mode enabled?

Message from syslogd@mrlb1b at Jul  5 15:12:32 ...
 kernel:Dazed and confused, but trying to continue

Message from syslogd@mrlb1b at Jul  5 15:13:02 ...
 kernel:Uhhuh. NMI received for unknown reason 31 on CPU 0.

Message from syslogd@mrlb1b at Jul  5 15:13:02 ...
 kernel:Do you have a strange power saving mode enabled?

So I searched around and this post points out that changing CPU Mode from Host Passthrough to QEMU Emulated solved the problem: https://forums.lime-technology.com/topic/46550-debian-84-vm-uhhuh-nmi-received-for-unknown-reason-20-on-cpu/?do=findComment&comment=551532

 

The problem now is, after changed the CPU mode to QEMU Emulated, the VM won't fully boot anymore. It's been 1 hour and the VM is stuck on this screen: 

 

I can't SSH into it. If I change CPU Mode to Host-Passthrough it boots up fine again, but I get those kernel errors every second again.

 

Has anyone seen this before? Any help is appreciated.

 

 

 

[vmunich]

I have installed a new VM, using QEMU64 CPU Mode from the start, and it ended up having the same problem. I've also tried assigning CPU0 to the VM. Neither worked. Any suggestions?

[thegeneral]

I had this problem also  this fixed it for me i edited the file  /etc/default/grub

i just added pcie_aspm=off

 

i still couldnt use cpu host pass-through because i still got the same errors but i switched it too QEMU64 and it has been a couple of hours now and i haven't had the error popup yet.

GRUB_TIMEOUT=5
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR="$(sed 's, release .*$,,g' /etc/system-release)"
GRUB_DEFAULT=saved
GRUB_DISABLE_SUBMENU=true
GRUB_TERMINAL_OUTPUT="console"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="crashkernel=auto rhgb quiet pcie_aspm=off"
GRUB_DISABLE_RECOVERY="true"

 

after editing the grub file run this command

 

grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg

and reboot. see if it works for you it did for me.