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@ 2009-12-10 18:38 oritw
  2009-12-10 18:38 ` [PATCH 1/7] Nested VMX patch 1 implements vmon and vmoff oritw
  2009-12-17 13:49 ` Nested VMX support v4 Avi Kivity
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From: oritw @ 2009-12-10 18:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: avi; +Cc: kvm, oritw, benami, abelg, muli, aliguori, mdday

Avi,                                                           
We have addressed all of the comments, please apply.           

The following patches implement nested VMX support. The patches enable a guest
to use the VMX APIs in order to run its own nested guest (i.e., enable running
other hypervisors which use VMX under KVM). The current patches support running
Linux under a nested KVM using shadow page table (with bypass_guest_pf
disabled). Reworking EPT support to mesh cleanly with the current shadow paging
design per Avi's comments is a work-in-progress.

The current patches support multiple nested hypervisors, which can run
multiple guests. Only 64-bit nested hypervisors are supported. SMP is
supported. Additional patches for running Windows under nested KVM, and
Linux under nested VMware server, are currently running in the lab, and
will be sent as a follow-on patchset.

This patches were written by:
     Orit Wasserman, oritw <at> il.ibm.com
     Ben-Ami Yassor, benami <at> il.ibm.com
     Abel Gordon, abelg <at> il.ibm.com
     Muli Ben-Yehuda, muli <at> il.ibm.com

With contributions by:
     Anthony Liguori, aliguori <at> us.ibm.com
     Mike Day, mdday <at> us.ibm.com

This work was inspired by the nested SVM support by Alexander Graf and Joerg
Roedel.

Changes since v3:
               Added support for 32-bit nested guests
               Added support for multiple nested guests
               Added support for multiple nested hypervisors
               Implemented VMX instruction decoding
               Implemented CR0.TS handling for nested

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2009-12-10 18:38 Nested VMX support v4 oritw
2009-12-10 18:38 ` [PATCH 1/7] Nested VMX patch 1 implements vmon and vmoff oritw
2009-12-10 18:38   ` [PATCH 2/7] Nested VMX patch 2 implements vmclear oritw
2009-12-10 18:38     ` [PATCH 3/7] Nested VMX patch 3 implements vmptrld and vmptrst oritw
2009-12-10 18:38       ` [PATCH 4/7] Nested VMX patch 4 implements vmread and vmwrite oritw
2009-12-10 18:38         ` [PATCH 5/7] Nested VMX patch 5 Simplify fpu handling oritw
2009-12-10 18:38           ` [PATCH 6/7] Nested VMX patch 6 implements vmlaunch and vmresume oritw
2009-12-10 18:38             ` [PATCH 7/7] Nested VMX patch 7 handling of nested guest exits oritw
2009-12-17 13:46               ` Avi Kivity
2009-12-17 10:10             ` [PATCH 6/7] Nested VMX patch 6 implements vmlaunch and vmresume Avi Kivity
2009-12-17  9:10           ` [PATCH 5/7] Nested VMX patch 5 Simplify fpu handling Avi Kivity
2009-12-16 14:44         ` [PATCH 4/7] Nested VMX patch 4 implements vmread and vmwrite Avi Kivity
2009-12-16 14:32       ` [PATCH 3/7] Nested VMX patch 3 implements vmptrld and vmptrst Avi Kivity
2009-12-16 13:59     ` [PATCH 2/7] Nested VMX patch 2 implements vmclear Avi Kivity
2009-12-28 14:57     ` Gleb Natapov
2009-12-16 13:34   ` [PATCH 1/7] Nested VMX patch 1 implements vmon and vmoff Avi Kivity
2009-12-20 14:20   ` Gleb Natapov
2009-12-20 14:23     ` Avi Kivity
2009-12-20 14:25       ` Gleb Natapov
2009-12-20 17:08     ` Andi Kleen
2009-12-20 19:04       ` Avi Kivity
2009-12-21 15:52         ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2009-12-21 16:00           ` Avi Kivity
2009-12-17 13:49 ` Nested VMX support v4 Avi Kivity

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