Hi all,
I am freshman to this community, I have some questions roughly about how
does KVM work, please help me answer these questions, thank you!
1, What is the relation between kvm-mod and kvm-qemu?
Is kvm-qemu mainly used to emulate the first initial 16-bit code of a
guest, then this qemu context will be replaced by the real guest, such
as linux, windows? But I also see some emulation code in kvm-mod, what
are these code used for?
2, How to handle irqs in kvm-mod?
I found vmx_inject_irq is used to inject an interrupt to a guest by
writing vmcs for a guest, initialized by this call trace: vmx_init ->
kvm_init -> kvm_arch_init (kvm_x86_ops is assigned in this call), then
kvm_x86_ops will be used everywhere to set_irq for guests. Am I right?
But I seems to me that vmx_inject_irq is only called by .unlocked_ioctl
in kvm_vcpu_fops file_operation struct, where could we use this file
operation? If a device wants to issue an interrupt to a guest, how does
this happen in device driver?
3, APIC.
I see that each vcpu has a local apic (vcpu.arch->apic), and some
functions use this area ranged by this apic pointer to do setting and
reading. Is this used to emulate apic for each vcpu? If so, when and
where this will be used by guests?
4, The relation between kvm_vcpu_arch and vmcs.
There are some regular registers in kvm_vcpu_arch, and the values for
these registers also be used to read and write. I am confused about
this, if we want to read/write a register for a guest, we don't directly
use those values in vmcs??
Regards,
Zhengwang
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