Sys-net does not start in default PV virt mode

After rebooting the computer, sys-firewall stopped starting, showing the error: “Cannot connect to qrexec agent.” At the same time, sys-net seemed to start according to the Qube Manager, but it would shut down after being unable to start sys-firewall.

When attempting to view the logs, they contained only one entry: “Logfile Opened.”

Meanwhile, the following message kept appearing in the dom0 log:

[2025-01-02 09:57:15] (XEN) d32 L1TF-vulnerable L1e 8010000018200066 - Crashing [2025-01-02 09:57:15] (XEN) domain_crash called from ./arch/x86/include/asm/shadow.h:219 [2025-01-02 09:57:15] (XEN) Domain 32 (vcpu#0) crashed on cpu#3: [2025-01-02 09:57:15] (XEN) ----[ Xen-4.17.4  x86_64  debug=n  Not tainted ]---- [2025-01-02 09:57:15] (XEN) CPU:    3 [2025-01-02 09:57:15] (XEN) RIP:    e033:[<ffffffff811d602a>] [2025-01-02 09:57:15] (XEN) RFLAGS: 0000000000000246   EM: 1   CONTEXT: pv guest (d32v0) [2025-01-02 09:57:15] (XEN) rax: 0000000000000001   rbx: 00000000b835c000   rcx: ffffffff811d602a [2025-01-02 09:57:15] (XEN) rdx: 0000000000000000   rsi: 0000000000000001   rdi: ffffffff81e03de0 [2025-01-02 09:57:15] (XEN) rbp: 8010000018200066   rsp: ffffffff81e03dc8   r8:  ffffffff81e03dff [2025-01-02 09:57:15] (XEN) r9:  00000000e39b999b   r10: 0000000000007ff0   r11: 0000000000000246 [2025-01-02 09:57:15] (XEN) r12: ffff888098f5c000   r13: ffffea0000608040   r14: 0000000000000000 [2025-01-02 09:57:15] (XEN) r15: 0000000000000000   cr0: 0000000080050033   cr4: 0000000000362660 [2025-01-02 09:57:15] (XEN) cr3: 00000002ab622000   cr2: 0000000000000000 [2025-01-02 09:57:15] (XEN) fsb: 0000000000000000   gsb: ffff888018400000   gss: 0000000000000000 [2025-01-02 09:57:15] (XEN) ds: 0000   es: 0000   fs: 0000   gs: 0000   ss: e02b   cs: e033 [2025-01-02 09:57:15] (XEN) Guest stack trace from rsp=ffffffff81e03dc8: [2025-01-02 09:57:15] (XEN)    000000004e138a69 0000000000000000 ffffffff8022a29b 00000000b835c000 [2025-01-02 09:57:15] (XEN)    8010000018200066 ffff888018200000 0000000000000001 0000000000000000 [2025-01-02 09:57:15] (XEN)    ffffffff8061d052 0000000100000000 0000000000000000 ffff888018200000 [2025-01-02 09:57:15] (XEN)    ffffffff81e03e80 ffffffff8061d584 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 [2025-01-02 09:57:15] (XEN)    f60878e8d2a825f6 ffffffff81e03e80 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 [2025-01-02 09:57:15] (XEN)    0000000000000000 ffffffff827c80c3 0000000000000000 ffffffff81e03f48 [2025-01-02 09:57:15] (XEN)    ffffffff82726698 ffffffff828c4020 0000000000000000 ffffffff82743708 [2025-01-02 09:57:15] (XEN)    ffffffff8273c259 ffffffff83800000 0000000100000000 0000000000000000 [2025-01-02 09:57:15] (XEN)    0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 [2025-01-02 09:57:15] (XEN)    0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 [2025-01-02 09:57:15] (XEN)    0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 [2025-01-02 09:57:15] (XEN)    0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 [2025-01-02 09:57:15] (XEN)    0000000000000000 ffffffff82742eff 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 [2025-01-02 09:57:15] (XEN)    0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 [2025-01-02 09:57:15] (XEN)    0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 [2025-01-02 09:57:15] (XEN)    0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 [2025-01-02 09:57:15] (XEN)    0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 [2025-01-02 09:57:15] (XEN)    0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0f00000060c0c748 [2025-01-02 09:57:15] (XEN)    ccccccccccccc305 cccccccccccccccc cccccccccccccccc cccccccccccccccc [2025-01-02 09:57:15] (XEN)    cccccccccccccccc cccccccccccccccc cccccccccccccccc cccccccccccccccc

The issue was resolved by switching the Virt Mode from PV to VM.

System:
Brand: HP
Model: HP EliteDesk 800 G3 DM 65W

CPU: Intel(R) Core™ i5-6500 CPU @ 3.20GHz
Chipset: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v5/E3-1500 v5/6th Gen Core Processor Host Bridge/DRAM Registers [8086:191f] (rev 07)
Graphics: Intel Corporation HD Graphics 530 [8086:1912] (rev 06) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])

RAM: 16131 Mb

QubesOS version: R4.2.3
BIOS: P21 Ver. 02.29
Kernel: 6.6.48-1
Xen: unknown