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Subject: Re: [pve-devel] [PATCH qemu] drop patch force-disabling smm
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On 10/08/2021 15:47, alexandre derumier wrote:
> Le mardi 10 août 2021 à 09:55 +0200, Wolfgang Bumiller a écrit :
>> This drops debian/patches/pve/0005-PVE-Config-smm_available-
>> false.patch
>> (and renumbers the remaining patches)
>>
>> From what I could gather, this patch was originally added
>> due to issues with old kernels. Now we have users which
>> seem to run into issues *with* the patch.
> yes indeed, this was old kernel with some old processors.
> 
> 
> Just be carefull with live migration, I wonder if it's not breaking
> migration it you just remove it like that.
> (Maybe it could be better to remove it for qemu > 6.1, it should be
> tested)
> 

Did anybody tested this on live migration (on a system where it would
actually toggle to true)?

If it breaks that we'd need to fallback to the old "false" with a QEMU
machine version check and we could only drop it then in PVE 8.0, so hopefully
it Just Works™ to safe that hassle..