On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 12:21, Anthony Liguori <anthony@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > QEMU does the leg work already to support SMM. It doesn't work with KVM > because we treat SMM as ROM memory and trap read/write access. > > To make it work with KVM, you'd have to hack things around to switch the VGA > space to RAM in order to the let the SMM code run. It's not impossible, but > that's the main reason it doesn't Just Work. Ah, SMM ASEG/BSEG? I think most recent firmware ignore that, use TSEG (some higher up memory) and run in protected mode. But, based on Gleb's other response, there are other, bigger issues as well... -Jordan -- 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
