With test suite updated to d8a4f9e5e8 ci: Update the list of tests that we run in the Fedora Cirrus-CI This issue still exist on Bionic, even with 10 mins timeout on these 4 tests. It's worth noting that the vmx_host_state_area test will generate these messages in dmesg: [ 4219.010606] kvm [17175]: vcpu0, guest rIP: 0x4085e4 kvm_set_msr_common: MSR_IA32_DEBUGCTLMSR 0x1, nop [ 4219.059166] kvm [17175]: vcpu0, guest rIP: 0x40b099 kvm_set_msr_common: MSR_IA32_DEBUGCTLMSR 0x3, nop [ 4219.109307] kvm [17175]: vcpu0, guest rIP: 0x410453 kvm_set_msr_common: MSR_IA32_DEBUGCTLMSR 0x1, nop [ 4219.153933] kvm [17175]: vcpu0, guest rIP: 0x40b13a kvm_set_msr_common: MSR_IA32_DEBUGCTLMSR 0x3, nop [ 5014.736843] *** Guest State *** [ 5014.753543] CR0: actual=0x0000000080010031, shadow=0x0000000080010031, gh_mask=fffffffffffffff7 [ 5014.798851] CR4: actual=0x0000000000002060, shadow=0x0000000000002020, gh_mask=ffffffffffffe871 [ 5014.839351] CR3 = 0x0000000001007000 [ 5014.856094] RSP = 0x000000000053a2f8 RIP = 0x00000000004079a5 [ 5014.883133] RFLAGS=0x00000002 DR7 = 0x0000000000000400 [ 5014.910111] Sysenter RSP=aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa CS:RIP=0008:00000000004001e4 [ 5014.940072] CS: sel=0x0008, attr=0x0a09b, limit=0xffffffff, base=0x0000000000000000 [ 5014.977109] DS: sel=0x0010, attr=0x0c093, limit=0xffffffff, base=0x0000000000000000 [ 5015.012935] SS: sel=0x0010, attr=0x0c093, limit=0xffffffff, base=0x0000000000000000 [ 5015.048569] ES: sel=0x0010, attr=0x0c093, limit=0xffffffff, base=0x0000000000000000 [ 5015.084293] FS: sel=0x0010, attr=0x0c093, limit=0xffffffff, base=0x0000000000000000 [ 5015.120186] GS: sel=0x0010, attr=0x0c093, limit=0xffffffff, base=0x0000000000539590 [ 5015.155731] GDTR: limit=0x0000ffff, base=0x000000000042af80 [ 5015.191524] LDTR: sel=0x0000, attr=0x10000, limit=0x00000000, base=0x0000000000000000 [ 5015.227181] IDTR: limit=0x0000ffff, base=0x000000000054af00 [ 5015.263048] TR: sel=0x0080, attr=0x0008b, limit=0x00000067, base=0x0000000000544760 [ 5015.303739] EFER = 0x0000000000000500 PAT = 0x0007040600070406 [ 5015.332411] DebugCtl = 0x0000000000000000 DebugExceptions = 0x0000000000000000 [ 5015.366642] Interruptibility = 00000000 ActivityState = 00000000 [ 5015.394930] InterruptStatus = 0000 [ 5015.410633] *** Host State *** [ 5015.424791] RIP = 0xffffffffc07b454c RSP = 0xffffbfc98a3c7c98 [ 5015.451433] CS=0010 SS=0018 DS=0000 ES=0000 FS=0000 GS=0000 TR=0040 [ 5015.480408] FSBase=00007f571eaa4700 GSBase=ffff9c02df480000 TRBase=fffffe00001ed000 [ 5015.515285] GDTBase=fffffe00001eb000 IDTBase=fffffe0000000000 [ 5015.541569] CR0=0000000080050033 CR3=000000084e7d2002 CR4=00000000003626e0 [ 5015.572969] Sysenter RSP=fffffe00001ed000 CS:RIP=0010:ffffffffb9a01b00 [ 5015.602954] EFER = 0x0000000000000d01 PAT = 0x0407050600070106 [ 5015.630027] *** Control State *** [ 5015.645470] PinBased=000000bf CPUBased=96a069fe SecondaryExec=000277eb [ 5015.675481] EntryControls=0000d3ff ExitControls=002fefff [ 5015.699919] ExceptionBitmap=00060042 PFECmask=00000000 PFECmatch=00000000 [ 5015.731131] VMEntry: intr_info=00000000 errcode=00000000 ilen=00000000 [ 5015.761253] VMExit: intr_info=00000000 errcode=00000000 ilen=00000003 [ 5015.793758] reason=80000021 qualification=0000000000000000 [ 5015.824873] IDTVectoring: info=00000000 errcode=00000000 [ 5015.849472] TSC Offset = 0xfffff3dd6e735c09 [ 5015.868763] TPR Threshold = 0x00 [ 5015.883732] PostedIntrVec = 0xf2 [ 5015.898665] EPT pointer = 0x0000000852b0c05e [ 5015.917916] PLE Gap=00000080 Window=00001000 [ 5015.937563] Virtual processor ID = 0x0001