Re: x86: Don't report guest userspace emulation error to userspace, why ?

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Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On 10/12/2015 18:58, Bandan Das wrote:
>>> > Allowing userspace to stop the guest with an emulation failure is a
>> This one I don't :) Userspace started the guest after all, there are other
>> ways for it to kill the guest if it wanted to.
>
> I mean allowing guest userspace to stop the guest.

Sure! Userspace (Qemu) can just reenter the guest when it sees the failure.
Doing it in the host kvm seems overkill.

> Paolo
>
>>> > possible denial of service, similar to L2 stopping L1 with an emulation
>>> > failure.
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