From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] vmx,svm: Add module parameter to ignore the 'in use' check Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2011 11:09:05 +0300 Message-ID: <4E12C6A1.70105@redhat.com> References: <1309820954-8629-1-git-send-email-levinsasha928@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, Marcelo Tosatti To: Sasha Levin Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:56273 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754506Ab1GEIJK (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Jul 2011 04:09:10 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1309820954-8629-1-git-send-email-levinsasha928@gmail.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 07/05/2011 02:09 AM, Sasha Levin wrote: > Add a module parameter 'check_inuse' to allow disabling the check of whether > virtualization has already been enabled on the given cpu. > > This is needed to deal with broken BIOS which set the SVM/VMX bit by default. Please split the vmx and svm parts. What machine was this? Did you try a BIOS update/complaint to manufacturer/etc? Let's try the proper channels before workarounds. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function