On 18/06/2016 11:01, Quentin Casasnovas wrote: > Cross-checking the KVM/VMX VMREAD emulation code with the Intel Software > Developper Manual Volume 3C - "VMREAD - Read Field from Virtual-Machine > Control Structure", I found that we're enforcing that the destination > operand is NOT located in a read-only data segment or any code segment when > the L1 is in long mode - BUT that check should only happen when it is in > protected mode. > > Shuffling the code a bit to make our emulation follow the specification > allows me to boot a Xen dom0 in a nested KVM and start HVM L2 guests > without problems. That's great, and I'm applying the patch, but it's also pretty weird. :) Do you have a pointer to Xen source code that does a VMREAD into a read-only data segment or a code segment? Thanks, Paolo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
