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Machine does not provide NMIs any more on ARM

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      What were you trying to do that didn't work?

      Execute virsh inject-nmi command.

      What is the impact of this issue to you?

      Please provide the package NVR for which the bug is seen:

      libvirt libvirt-11.7.0-1.el10.aarch64
      qemu-kvm qemu-kvm-10.1.0-2.el10.aarch64
      kernel kernel-6.12.0-134.el10.aarch64+64k

      How reproducible is this bug?:

      100%

      Steps to reproduce

      1. rhel.timer_management.no_timer.offset_utc.under_stress.vm_operations.inject_nmi.test_timers_in_vm.linux_guest
        Inject nmi failed: Command '/usr/bin/virsh inject-nmi avocado-vt-vm1 ' failed. stdout: b'\n' stderr: b"error: internal error: unable to execute QEMU command 'inject-nmi': machine does not provide NMIs\n"
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      Expected results

      This command should work

      Actual results

      internal error: unable to execute QEMU command 'inject-nmi': machine does not provide NMIs

       

      Additional info:

      It works with below. 

      libvirt libvirt-11.7.0-1.el10.aarch64
      qemu-kvm qemu-kvm-10.1.0-1.el10.aarch64
      kernel kernel-6.12.0-124.el10.aarch64+64k

      And it works on x86_64 in latest version.

      libvirt libvirt-11.10.0-1.el10.x86_64
      qemu-kvm qemu-kvm-10.1.0-7.el10.x86_64
      kernel kernel-6.12.0-165.el10.x86_64

      2025-12-04 09:41:12,863 avocado.utils.process process L0714 INFO | Command '/usr/bin/virsh inject-nmi avocado-vt-vm1 ' finished with 0 after 0.031150785s 2025-12-04 09:41:12,864 avocado.virttest.virsh virsh L0869 DEBUG| status: 0

              virt-maint virt-maint
              rhn-support-dzheng Dan Zheng
              virt-maint virt-maint
              virt-bugs virt-bugs
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