From: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>,
Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] KVM: VMX: Notify if VMX is already in use
Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2011 16:18:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1323267521.4009.11.camel@lappy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EDF7590.5060701@redhat.com>
On Wed, 2011-12-07 at 16:17 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 12/01/2011 08:30 PM, Sasha Levin wrote:
> > Currently we silently fail if VMX is already in use by a different
> > virtualization technology.
> >
> > This is bad since it's non-obvious for the user, and its not too uncommon
> > for users to have several of these installed on same host.
> >
> > This patch adds a message to notify the user of the problem.
> >
>
> Does this actually happen? With which hypervisor?
vbox
It turns VMX/SVM on when it loads, regardless of whether it's running a
guest or not.
--
Sasha.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-07 14:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-01 18:30 [PATCH 1/2] KVM: VMX: Notify if VMX is already in use Sasha Levin
2011-12-01 18:30 ` [PATCH 2/2] KVM: SVM: Notify if SVM " Sasha Levin
2011-12-02 8:53 ` Joerg Roedel
2011-12-07 14:17 ` [PATCH 1/2] KVM: VMX: Notify if VMX " Avi Kivity
2011-12-07 14:18 ` Sasha Levin [this message]
2011-12-07 14:23 ` Avi Kivity
2011-12-07 14:24 ` Sasha Levin
2011-12-07 14:26 ` Avi Kivity
2011-12-07 14:42 ` Sasha Levin
2011-12-07 15:15 ` Sasha Levin
2011-12-07 15:31 ` Avi Kivity
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