From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] test: verify that the emulator honours svm intercepts Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 10:48:55 +0300 Message-ID: <4C513267.9020306@redhat.com> References: <1280334351-6395-1-git-send-email-avi@redhat.com> <1280334351-6395-7-git-send-email-avi@redhat.com> <4C507133.8010403@redhat.com> <20100729074319.GJ26098@amd.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Marcelo Tosatti , "kvm@vger.kernel.org" To: "Roedel, Joerg" Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:12872 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753569Ab0G2HtD (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jul 2010 03:49:03 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20100729074319.GJ26098@amd.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 07/29/2010 10:43 AM, Roedel, Joerg wrote: > Another question, is > there any way to run these tests bare-metal to verify them first on real > silicon? Sure, you can use grub's multiboot capabilities to boot a .flat file. > This would be very helpful to have the proof that a test really > works, especially in the nested-svm case. > The dependency on the testdev seem to make things difficult. But I > havn't investigated this further yet. > Most tests use testdev for the serial port and for the memory size. We can switch the serial port to a real serial device (or to screen display via int 10), and query the memory size from the BIOS. -- I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this signature is too narrow to contain.