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From: Guillaume Thouvenin <guillaume.thouvenin@bull.net>
Subject: Re: VMX disabled by Feature Control MSR
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 14:35:02 +0200
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On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 13:45:49 +0200
Guillaume Thouvenin <guillaume.thouvenin@bull.net> wrote:

>   Thus my question is: What to do to set the bit 2 of the
> IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL to 1? Is it only possible by using the option in
> the BIOS menu (and it's not present in mine) or is it possible to set it
> to 1 before switching in protected mode when Xen is booting. For exemple
> somwhere in arch/x86/boot/x86_64.S?

In fact the problem is how to set the lock bit to 0. In the following
code found in arch/x86/hvm/vmx/vmx.c :

start_vmx() {
...
   if (eax & IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL_MSR_LOCK) {
        if ((eax & IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL_MSR_ENABLE_VMXON) == 0x0) {
            printk("VMX disabled by Feature Control MSR.\n");
            return 0;
        }
    }
    else {
        wrmsr(IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL_MSR,
              IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL_MSR_LOCK |
              IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL_MSR_ENABLE_VMXON, 0);
    }
...

If the "VMX disabled..." message is displayed, it means that the lock
bit is set to 1. Otherwise we set bit2 to 1. If I try to clear it while
it is set it causes a general-protection fault. Is it possible to modify
before Xen switches from real mode to protected mode? 

I will try to modify the arch/x86/boot/x86_64.S

Regards,
Guillaume