Re: [Bug 53611] New: nVMX: Add nested EPT

[Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>]

On 2013-02-12 20:13, Nakajima, Jun wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 5:27 AM, Nadav Har'El <nyh@math.technion.ac.il> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 11, 2013, Jan Kiszka wrote about "Re: [Bug 53611] New: nVMX: Add nested EPT":
>>> On 2013-02-11 13:49, bugzilla-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org wrote:
>>>> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53611
>>>>            Summary: nVMX: Add nested EPT
>>
>> Yikes, I didn't realize that these bugzilla edits all get spammed to the
>> entire mailing list :( Sorry about those...
>>
>>> I suppose they do not apply anymore as well. Do you have a recent tree
>>> around somewhere or plan to resume work on it?
>>
>> Unfortunately, no - I did not have time to work on these patches since
>> August.
>>
>> The reason I'm now stuffing these things into the bug tracker is that
>> at the end of this month I am leaving IBM to a new job, so I'm pretty
>> sure I won't have time myself to continue any work on nested VMX, and
>> would like for the missing nested-VMX features to be documented in case
>> someone else comes along and wants to improve it. So unfortunately, you
>> should expect more of this bugzilla spam on the mailing list...
>>
> 
> I looked at your (old) patches, and they seem to be very useful
> although some of them require rebasing or rewriting. We are interested
> in completing the nested-VMX features.

That's great news. Can you estimate when you will be able to work on it?

I will have a use case for nEPT soon - testing purposes. But working
into the KVM MMU and doing the port myself may unfortunately consume too
much time here.

Jan

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