Re: KVM & VMX root mode

Sander van Leeuwen
2007-09-03T07:29:05Z

Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> While one could in theory change KVM to only activate VMX when a guest is
> started this wouldn't give a significant improvement to the user experiance.
> Instead of being able to rely on KVM working, it now may or may not work
> depending on whether you happen to have a VirtualBox guest running or not &
> vica-verca. You still would not be able to run guests from both concurrently
> which should surely be the real goal. The only way I see the latter being
> achieved is if VirtualBox were to leverage the existing KVM kernel APIs to
> access the underlying hardware virt capabilities.
>
You are mistaken. VT-x allows multiple clients to work concurrently.
There's only one catch: all those
clients should follow certain guidelines.

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