On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 08:44:56AM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote: > Gleb Natapov wrote > >>BTW, I don't think it's write-protected and it probably should be? > >> > >AFAIR it is not writable on plain qemu. > > KVM wants it to be writable for the TPR optimization. Historically, I don't think so. TPR will work after BIOS will be shadowed. This is simply KVM shortcoming. > it was read-only in QEMU but it changed to read-write in order to I just checked. It is still read-only in QEMU _before_ BIOS is shadowed. > fake coreboot into thinking that the bios implemented PMM which it > doesn't. What is PMM? Post memory manager? How is it related? -- Gleb. -- 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