On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 06:49:23PM +0100, Jan Kiszka wrote: > > Lets check if SVM works. I can do that if you tell me how. > > - Fire up some Linux guest with gdb installed > - Attach gdb to gdbstub of the VM I get "Remote 'g' packet reply is too long". My guest and host are 64 bit. > - Set a soft breakpoint in guest kernel, ideally where it does not > immediately trigger, e.g. on sys_reboot (use grep sys_reboot > /proc/kallsyms if you don't have symbols for the guest kernel) > - Start gdb /bin/true in the guest > - run > > As gdb sets some automatic breakpoints, this already exercises the > reinjection of #BP. > > > My concern is > > that if SVM doesn't work we will write another way to handle this > > situation that will work on SVM and VMX and then we will have code in > > VMX that is not needed, but we have to support it. > > I understand your concerns, but I do not share them ATM. I bet we will > need some workaround for older SVM, but it will be some SVM-only thing. > Anyway, we can wait with this patch a few days until we know more. > > Jan > -- 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
