On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 03:48:35PM +0200, oritw@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > From: Orit Wasserman <oritw@xxxxxxxxxx> > > This patch implements nested VMX support. It enables a guest to use the > VMX APIs in order to run its own nested guest (i.e., it enables > running other hypervisors which use VMX under KVM). The current patch > supports running Linux under a nested KVM. Additional patches for > running Windows under nested KVM, and Linux and Windows under nested > VMware server(!), are currently running in the lab. We are in the > process of forward-porting those patches to -tip. > > The current patch only supports a single nested hypervisor, which can > only run a single guest. SMP is not supported yet when running nested > hypervisor (work in progress). Only 64 bit nested hypervisors are > supported. Currently only EPT mode in both host and nested hypervisor > is supported (i.e., both hypervisors must use EPT). > > This patch was written by: > Orit Wasserman, oritw@xxxxxxxxxx > Ben-Ami Yassour, benami@xxxxxxxxxx > Abel Gordon, abelg@xxxxxxxxxx > Muli Ben-Yehuda, muli@xxxxxxxxxx > > With contributions by > Anthony Liguori, aliguori@xxxxxxxxxx > Mike Day, mdday@xxxxxxxxxx Nice work. Do you have any performance numbers? Joerg -- 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
