KVM: 0.896 graphic: 0.637 device: 0.615 PID: 0.444 semantic: 0.435 performance: 0.432 boot: 0.296 debug: 0.273 other: 0.225 socket: 0.181 network: 0.176 vnc: 0.155 permissions: 0.114 files: 0.025 QEMU KVM IGD SandyBridge Passthrough crash I try to passthrough my Intel GPU with this command: qemu-system-x86_64 -nodefaults -parallel none -k de -rtc base=localtime -serial unix:/run/qemu/win7-serial.sock,server,nowait -monitor unix:/run/qemu/win7-monitor.sock,server,nowait -netdev user,id=net0 -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=net0,mac=52:54:00:00:00:07 -device vfio-pci,host=0000:00:02.0,addr=0x2 -device vfio-pci,host=0000:00:1b.0 -device virtio-keyboard-pci -device virtio-mouse-pci -object input-linux,id=kbd1,evdev=/dev/input/by-path/pci-0000:00:1a.0-usb-0:1.2.2:1.2-event-kbd,grab_all=on,repeat=on -object input-linux,id=mouse1,evdev=/dev/input/by-path/pci-0000:00:1a.0-usb-0:1.2.2:1.2-event-mouse -enable-kvm -cpu host -smp 4,sockets=1,cores=4,threads=1 -vga none -display none -m 2g -device virtio-blk-pci,drive=boot,bootindex=1 -drive file=/opt/vm/qcow2/win7.qcow2,format=qcow2,if=none,id=boot This ONLY works if i remove "-enable-kvm" else the windows (7 and 10) boot crashes in bluescreen "stop 0x0000003b" (probably while loading the intel gpu driver (intel graphics 3000). The system is an older ThinkPad T420 with Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2520M CPU @ 2.50GHz. CMDLINE: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-linux root=LABEL=root rw ipv6.disable=0 net.ifnames=0 intel_iommu=on iommu=pt video=LVDS-1:d Solved: I added kvm.ignore_msrs=1 to kernel parameter! I'm closing this now since there seems to be a workaround available and nobody updated this bug in the past 1.5 years anymore