On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 02:26:17PM -0700, Hollis Blanchard wrote: > On 03/26/2010 12:59 PM, Dale Farnsworth wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 09:16:19AM -0700, Dale Farnsworth wrote: >>> On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 11:32:57PM +0100, Alexander Graf wrote: >>>> >>>> Am 25.03.2010 um 22:04 schrieb Avi Kivity<avi@xxxxxxxxxx>: >>>> >>>>> On 03/25/2010 06:54 PM, Dale Farnsworth wrote: >>>>>> I'm beginning to look at implementing KVM on MIPS. I've tried to >>>>>> search >>>>>> for any work-in-progress on this but haven't found much at all. >>>>> >>>>>> If you know of anyone who is working on this or of pitfalls I should >>>>>> consider before jumping in, please let me know. >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Is the instruction set virtualizable? >>>> >>>> FWIW it's not. Kernel mode is used based on an address offset of the IP. >>>> Since you'd want to have your guest running in user mode, you're pretty >>>> much lost there. >>> >>> I guess that would qualify as a pitfall. Thanks Avi and Alex. >> >> After thinking about this some more, I think this means we can't run >> an unmodified guest. It should be possible to build the guest kernel >> to run in supervisor or user mode/address space. >> >> I'm new to MIPS, so I'm still looking for other challenges in virtualizing >> the instruction set. > > Hi Dale, how is this going? > > Hollis Blanchard > Mentor Graphics, Embedded Systems Division Unfortunately, I haven't been able to spend much time on it. So, it's not really going. -Dale -- 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
