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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] kvm: Move kvm_allows_irq0_override() to
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To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: kvm <kvm@vger.kernel.org>, patches@linaro.org, Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>, Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>

On 07/23/2012 08:58 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 23 July 2012 15:30, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> wrote:
>> But I was only joking.  Nested virtualization is interesting technically
>> but so far I haven't seen any huge or even small uptake.
> 
> Yes; that (as I understand it) is why it wasn't an expected use
> case for the architecture extensions. The other related thing that
> might be surprising for x86-background people is that being
> able to present the guest with a virtual CPU that looks like
> a pre-virtualization CPU (eg the A9) isn't really an intended
> use case either. (The ARM world has much less of the 'everything
> must be fully backwards compatible for existing OSes' than x86...)

I expect this to change once ARM servers become a reality.

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