From: Nadav Har'El <nyh@math.technion.ac.il>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Julian Stecklina <js@alien8.de>, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: Enable VMX-related bits in MSR_IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL.
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 19:33:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120306173308.GA20590@fermat.math.technion.ac.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120306154738.GA15125@fermat.math.technion.ac.il>
On Tue, Mar 06, 2012, Nadav Har'El wrote about "Re: [PATCH] KVM: Enable VMX-related bits in MSR_IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL.":
> 2. handle_vmon() does not check the previous setting of this MSR.
> If the guest (or its BIOS) doesn't set both FEATURE_CONTROL_LOCKED
> and FEATURE_CONTROL_VMXON_ENABLED_OUTSIDE_SMX, it should get a
By the way, am I right in my understanding that KVM doesn't support
SMX in the guest? I didn't see mention of CR4.SMXE or a GETSEC exit
handler, which is why I'm assuming that it doesn't...
If this assumption isn't true, I'll also need to worry about the
..._INSIDE_SMX case.
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-06 15:02 [PATCH] KVM: Enable VMX-related bits in MSR_IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL Julian Stecklina
2012-03-06 15:13 ` Avi Kivity
2012-03-06 15:25 ` Julian Stecklina
2012-03-06 15:47 ` Nadav Har'El
2012-03-06 16:45 ` Julian Stecklina
2012-03-06 17:33 ` Nadav Har'El [this message]
2012-03-07 10:07 ` Avi Kivity
2012-03-07 11:10 ` Nadav Har'El
2012-03-07 14:14 ` Avi Kivity
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