From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jan Kiszka Subject: Re: [Bug 53611] New: nVMX: Add nested EPT Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 08:43:27 +0100 Message-ID: <511B441F.5030002@siemens.com> References: <5118EF31.8000900@siemens.com> <20130211132730.GA24985@fermat.math.technion.ac.il> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Nadav Har'El" , "kvm@vger.kernel.org" To: "Nakajima, Jun" Return-path: Received: from thoth.sbs.de ([192.35.17.2]:19294 "EHLO thoth.sbs.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754015Ab3BMHng (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Feb 2013 02:43:36 -0500 In-Reply-To: Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 2013-02-12 20:13, Nakajima, Jun wrote: > On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 5:27 AM, Nadav Har'El wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On Mon, Feb 11, 2013, Jan Kiszka wrote about "Re: [Bug 53611] New: nVMX: Add nested EPT": >>> On 2013-02-11 13:49, bugzilla-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org wrote: >>>> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53611 >>>> Summary: nVMX: Add nested EPT >> >> Yikes, I didn't realize that these bugzilla edits all get spammed to the >> entire mailing list :( Sorry about those... >> >>> I suppose they do not apply anymore as well. Do you have a recent tree >>> around somewhere or plan to resume work on it? >> >> Unfortunately, no - I did not have time to work on these patches since >> August. >> >> The reason I'm now stuffing these things into the bug tracker is that >> at the end of this month I am leaving IBM to a new job, so I'm pretty >> sure I won't have time myself to continue any work on nested VMX, and >> would like for the missing nested-VMX features to be documented in case >> someone else comes along and wants to improve it. So unfortunately, you >> should expect more of this bugzilla spam on the mailing list... >> > > I looked at your (old) patches, and they seem to be very useful > although some of them require rebasing or rewriting. We are interested > in completing the nested-VMX features. That's great news. Can you estimate when you will be able to work on it? I will have a use case for nEPT soon - testing purposes. But working into the KVM MMU and doing the port myself may unfortunately consume too much time here. Jan -- Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT RTC ITP SDP-DE Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux