From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] KVM: New guest debug interface Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2008 11:34:08 +0200 Message-ID: <493CEA10.2000104@redhat.com> References: <20081127114342.10901.31992.stgit@mchn012c.ww002.siemens.net> <20081127114343.10901.26107.stgit@mchn012c.ww002.siemens.net> <493B9DAE.7050007@redhat.com> <493CE546.2030507@siemens.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, Hollis Blanchard , Joerg Roedel To: Jan Kiszka Return-path: Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:43079 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751288AbYLHJeI (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Dec 2008 04:34:08 -0500 In-Reply-To: <493CE546.2030507@siemens.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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.