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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>,
	Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] KVM: New guest debug interface
Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2008 11:34:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <493CEA10.2000104@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <493CE546.2030507@siemens.com>

Jan Kiszka wrote:
>>> Note that both SVM and VTX are supported, but only the latter was tested
>>> yet. Based on the experience with all those VTX corner case, I would be
>>> fairly surprised if SVM will work out of the box.
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> I'd like svm to work before applying.
>>     
>
> To validate the design?
>
>   

To make sure it doesn't oops, and to make sure it works.

> I will see if I can organize an SVM box, but I can't promise when I'll
> be able to do the testing. Anyone willing to contribute time on this
> would be warmly welcome!
>
>   

I happen to have an svm box.  How do you test this? play with gdb inside 
and outside the guest?

You could also try qemu's svm emulation, but it may be a little slow, 
and probably hasn't been well tested in these areas.

-- 
I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this
signature is too narrow to contain.


  reply	other threads:[~2008-12-08  9:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-27 11:43 [PATCH 0/5] KVM: Improved guest debugging / debug register emulation Jan Kiszka
2008-11-27 11:43 ` [PATCH 5/5] KVM: x86: Wire-up hardware breakpoints for guest debugging Jan Kiszka
2008-11-27 11:43 ` [PATCH 4/5] KVM: x86: Virtualize debug registers Jan Kiszka
2008-11-27 11:43 ` [PATCH 1/5] VMX: Support for injecting software exceptions Jan Kiszka
2008-11-27 11:43 ` [PATCH 2/5] KVM: New guest debug interface Jan Kiszka
2008-12-07  9:55   ` Avi Kivity
2008-12-08  9:13     ` Jan Kiszka
2008-12-08  9:34       ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2008-12-08  9:42         ` Jan Kiszka
2008-12-08 13:47         ` Jan Kiszka
2008-12-08 14:57           ` Avi Kivity
2008-12-08 15:17             ` Jan Kiszka
2008-12-10  8:48               ` Avi Kivity
2008-11-27 11:43 ` [PATCH 3/5] KVM: VMX: Ensure interruptibility when single-stepping Jan Kiszka
2008-12-07 10:05   ` Avi Kivity
2008-12-08  9:17     ` Jan Kiszka
2008-12-11 19:15     ` [PATCH] KVM: VMX: Allow single-stepping when interruptible Jan Kiszka
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-10-06  9:15 [PATCH 0/5] KVM: Fix and improve guest debugging and x86 debug registers Jan Kiszka
2008-10-06  9:15 ` [PATCH 2/5] KVM: New guest debug interface Jan Kiszka

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