graphic: 0.181 semantic: 0.130 device: 0.107 network: 0.081 PID: 0.074 vnc: 0.067 boot: 0.062 other: 0.056 permissions: 0.055 socket: 0.048 files: 0.044 performance: 0.043 debug: 0.032 KVM: 0.019 debug: 0.534 semantic: 0.078 PID: 0.059 files: 0.059 other: 0.059 performance: 0.059 boot: 0.030 KVM: 0.024 socket: 0.020 device: 0.019 network: 0.019 graphic: 0.018 permissions: 0.013 vnc: 0.009 wrgsbase misemulated in x86_64-softmmu qemu revision: cfe4cade054c0e0d00d0185cdc433a9e3ce3e2e4 command: ./qemu-system-x86_64 -m 2048 -nographic -net none -smp 4,threads=2 -machine q35 -kernel zircon.bin -cpu Haswell,+smap,-check -initrd bootdata.bin -append 'TERM=screen kernel.halt-on-panic=true ' On this revision, the VM reports CPUID.07H.0H.EBX[0] = 1. In this VM, with CR4[16] set to 1, wrgsbase triggers #UD, which mismatches the behavior described in Intel's instruction reference. For further data, the faulting instruction is f3 48 0f ae df wrgsbase %rdi Fix is in staging: https://github.com/ehabkost/qemu/commit/cdcc80d41360e278b45c91de29a29d797264e85d Fix is in master: https://github.com/qemu/qemu/commit/e0dd5fd41a1a38766009f442967fab700d2d0550