I'm not sure whether this is a specific CentOS question, but I'm hoping someone here can give me some pointers. I have an OpenStack compute node running CentOS 7.4.1708 and kernel 3.10.0-693.17.1.el7.x86_64 which is configured for nested virtualization; this has been set up for a few years and works fine when running CentOS 7 guests which themselves are using virt-create / virt-customize etc. Nova is set up on the compute node so that guests have cpu mode host-passthrough. I have been trying to run a CentOS 8 guest on the compute node so that I can build CentOS 8 images for OpenStack (there is an issue using a CentOS 7 server to build a CentOS 8 image related to xfs options which are only supported read-only by CentOS 7). However, every time I try to build a CentOS 8 image using a CentOS 8 guest, the CentOS 8 guest crashes with a kernel panic, not immediately but usually near the end of the image build process. (I have also seen similar behaviour using a Fedora 31 guest to build a CentOS 8 image, but the crashes are less frequent, and some image builds have succeeded). The CentOS 8 guest is running CentOS 8.1.1911 (Core) and kernel 4.18.0-147.3.1.el8_1.x86_64. Any ideas?