Re: requiring virtual NMI for Intel processors?

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Got it. One last point: although it is highly unlikely to cause a
problem, you may want to check hypervisors that support nested
virtualization too.

FWIW: My VMware Fusion 8.5.3 exposes both features.


> On Feb 20, 2017, at 2:00 PM, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 
>> 1. It seems you look on Xeons (excluding Yonah and Cedarmill). Desktop and
>> laptop CPUs may have different fusing than servers.
> 
> Yeah, the attached file mostly included Xeons because I couldn't find a
> desktop or laptop CPU for each generation.  However I did find Penryn and
> Nehalem desktop CPUs and they already had vNMI support.
> 
> I stopped at Haswell because we still don't support nesting some
> Broadwell+ extensions (e.g. PML).  In fact we don't support EPT A/D
> bits too, though that one shouldn't be hard to add.
> 
> The list of server-only features seems to be small though until Haswell:
> only EPT 1GB page tables, PLE and APICv.
> 
>> 2. No Atoms in the list.
> 
> Centerton (Saltwell-based) is the only one I have access to and it's
> the same as Conroe, so it has it.
> 
> Paolo




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