From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>,
"kvm@vger.kernel.org" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
"joro@8bytes.org" <joro@8bytes.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 9/9] Allow setting the SVME bit v5
Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 15:54:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <490F027F.6090403@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <EBF07019-6819-4234-9201-D65EB09C5B27@suse.de>
Alexander Graf wrote:
>> We need the ability to control this on the qemu level rather than
>> guest bios level. For example, once you enable the cpuid bit, then,
>> strictly speaking, you lose the ability to live migrate across vendors.
>
> Hum, so we could patch the bios to always try and activate svm when
> the cpuid bit is found and disable it (msr write) when not.
It needs to do this anyway in case it finds itself running on an Intel
cpu or a pre-nested-svm kernel.
> Then we could simply enable/disable the cpuid capability in qemu if we
> don't want it exposed.
Yes.
--
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-03 13:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-20 17:04 [PATCH 0/9] Add support for nested SVM (kernel) v5 Alexander Graf
2008-10-20 17:04 ` [PATCH 1/9] Clean up VINTR setting v5 Alexander Graf
2008-10-20 17:04 ` [PATCH 2/9] Add helper functions for nested SVM v5 Alexander Graf
2008-10-20 17:04 ` [PATCH 3/9] Implement GIF, clgi and stgi v5 Alexander Graf
2008-10-20 17:04 ` [PATCH 4/9] Implement hsave v5 Alexander Graf
2008-10-20 17:04 ` [PATCH 5/9] Add VMLOAD and VMSAVE handlers v5 Alexander Graf
2008-10-20 17:04 ` [PATCH 6/9] Add VMRUN handler v5 Alexander Graf
2008-10-20 17:04 ` [PATCH 7/9] Add VMEXIT handler and intercepts v5 Alexander Graf
2008-10-20 17:04 ` [PATCH 8/9] allow read access to MSR_VM_VR Alexander Graf
2008-10-20 17:04 ` [PATCH 9/9] Allow setting the SVME bit v5 Alexander Graf
2008-10-29 13:58 ` Joerg Roedel
2008-10-29 14:03 ` Alexander Graf
2008-10-29 14:17 ` Avi Kivity
2008-10-29 14:07 ` Avi Kivity
2008-10-30 19:16 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-10-30 19:24 ` Avi Kivity
2008-10-30 20:46 ` Alexander Graf
2008-10-30 20:44 ` Alexander Graf
2008-10-30 20:52 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-11-02 9:11 ` Avi Kivity
2008-11-03 7:37 ` Alexander Graf
2008-11-03 13:54 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2008-10-30 19:15 ` [PATCH 8/9] allow read access to MSR_VM_VR Anthony Liguori
2008-10-31 10:57 ` Joerg Roedel
2008-10-28 18:38 ` Add VMRUN handler v5 Mike Day
2008-10-29 5:35 ` Alexander Graf
2008-11-18 14:14 ` [PATCH 6/9] " Muli Ben-Yehuda
2008-10-30 18:06 ` [PATCH 5/9] Add VMLOAD and VMSAVE handlers v5 Anthony Liguori
2008-10-30 18:44 ` Alexander Graf
2008-10-30 19:14 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-10-30 21:02 ` Alexander Graf
2008-10-30 21:38 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-10-30 18:04 ` [PATCH 4/9] Implement hsave v5 Anthony Liguori
2008-10-30 18:43 ` Alexander Graf
2008-10-30 19:05 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-10-30 19:29 ` Avi Kivity
2008-10-30 20:38 ` Alexander Graf
2008-10-30 20:44 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-10-30 20:47 ` Alexander Graf
2008-10-30 22:05 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-11-02 9:24 ` Avi Kivity
2008-10-27 19:09 ` Implement GIF, clgi and stgi v5 Mike Day
2008-10-27 19:29 ` Avi Kivity
2008-10-27 19:40 ` Mike Day
2008-10-30 18:02 ` [PATCH 3/9] " Anthony Liguori
2008-10-30 18:10 ` Avi Kivity
2008-10-30 18:35 ` Alexander Graf
2008-10-30 19:08 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-10-30 19:11 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-10-29 13:48 ` [PATCH 2/9] Add helper functions for nested SVM v5 Joerg Roedel
2008-10-30 17:56 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-10-30 18:41 ` Alexander Graf
2008-10-30 19:10 ` Anthony Liguori
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