[x86] - technical questions about HV implementation on Intel VT

[Eric Lacombe <goretux@gmail.com>]

Hello,

I worked on a particular hypervisor, that just put in a VM the currently 
running kernel. But I faced some problems and I would like to know some good 
practices in order to debug the module I develop.

When the module put the current kernel in "vmx non-root mode", some conditions 
irremediably trigger a VM-Exit (with the processor I use, loading cr3 always 
trigger a vmexit). And here comes my problem. How can I reliably get 
information (by way of printk) when my hypervisor screw something up, and 
crash the machine with lots of debug info that scroll quickly on the screen, 
just before freezing the machine.

In fact, It seems that in some situations the machine "loop on page faults".
Let me depict the scenario:
After a vmxlaunch, the host hand over the cpu to the guest then a vmexit 
occurs. Thus, the guest hand over to the host. the host checks some things 
and issue a vmxresume, and.. a vmexit occurs again, etc. etc.

So, when the host take control for the first time after the first vmexit, I 
would like the host to print informations and to "die correctly", so as I 
could read these information on the screen (ie, without being polluted with 
lots of debug messages that scroll on the screen).

Note: I already have some vmexits due to invalid guest state during vmxlaunch, 
but it seems (because my trivial printings for those situations do not show 
again) I fully repaired those problems. Now there is a lot of debug info 
quickly scrolling on the screen before the system crashes :/

Thanks in advance for your answers.

	Eric