Re: nested migration issues

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On Tue, Aug 27, 2013, Jan Kiszka wrote about "Re: nested migration issues":
> > Can anybody tell me whether kvm supports this kind of nested migration
> > or anybody is working on the relating field?
> 
> No, KVM does not support migration while nested VMX (or SVM) is enabled.
> We lack userspace interfaces to export/import the required state, and
> that mostly because we do not really know yet what state needs to be
> made available. Specifically nVMX is still under development. Migration
> support will officially follow once we feel we reached a mature state
> with nesting support.

Also check out https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53851 for
some earlier ideas about the issue of migrating L1 complete with its
L2s.

> That said, if you want to play with adding such an interface yourself,
> no one will stop you. It may serve as a reference for us what is
> required, but you should not expect it to be merged soon.
> 
> BTW, not only migration is broken so far. Even reset does not work while
> VMX is enabled. For the same reason: userspace cannot load a VCPU state
> that resets all VMX states properly.
> 
> Jan
> 
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