From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Nitin A Kamble <nitin.a.kamble@intel.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: VMX: Support Unrestricted Guest feature
Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2009 10:55:17 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A2E1565.3030903@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1244486056-29134-1-git-send-email-nitin.a.kamble@intel.com>
Nitin A Kamble wrote:
> "Unrestricted Guest" feature is added in the VMX specification.
> Intel Westmere and onwards processors will support this feature.
>
> It allows kvm guests to run real mode and unpaged mode
> code natively in the VMX mode when EPT is turned on. With the
> unrestricted guest there is no need to emulate the guest real mode code
> in the vm86 container or in the emulator. Also the guest big real mode
> code works like native.
>
> The attached patch enhances KVM to use the unrestricted guest feature
> if available on the processor. It also adds a new kernel/module
> parameter to disable the unrestricted guest feature at the boot time.
>
>
Applied, thanks.
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <VMX Unrestricted Guest>
2009-06-04 22:25 ` [PATCH KVM VMX 0/2] Enable Unrestricted Guest Nitin A Kamble
2009-06-04 22:04 ` [PATCH KVM VMX 1/2] KVM: VMX: Rename rmode.active to rmode.vm86_active Nitin A Kamble
2009-06-07 6:47 ` Avi Kivity
2009-06-04 22:04 ` [PATCH KVM VMX 2/2] KVM: VMX: Support Unrestricted Guest feature Nitin A Kamble
2009-06-07 6:56 ` Avi Kivity
2009-06-08 18:34 ` [PATCH] " Nitin A Kamble
2009-06-09 7:55 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
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