Re: [PATCH 0/30] nVMX: Nested VMX, v9

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On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 04:52:47PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 05/23/2011 04:40 PM, Joerg Roedel wrote:

>> The next benefit is that it works seemlessly even if the state that
>> needs to be transfered is extended (e.g. by emulating a new
>> virtualization hardware feature). This support can be implemented in the
>> kernel module and no changes to qemu are required.
>
> I agree it's a benefit.  But I don't like making the fake vmexit part of  
> live migration, if it turns out the wrong choice it's hard to undo it.

Well, saving the state to the host-save-area and doing a fake-vmexit is
logically the same, only the memory where the information is stored
differs.

To user-space we can provide a VCPU_FREEZE/VCPU_UNFREEZE ioctl which
does all the necessary things.

	Joerg

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