On Sat, 2009-10-03 at 20:59 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
On Sat, 2009-10-03 at 12:08 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
So these MSRs can be modified by the hypervisor? Otherwise you'd cache
them in the guest with no hypervisor involvement, right? (just making
sure :)
There's one
Yes, and I really don't want to overdo it. PV for mfmsr/mtmsr and
mfspr/mtspr is really necessary. X86 simply has that in hardware.
Note to Avi: This is also because we aren't actually using the
virtualization feature of the processor, but instead running
the guest basically in user space.
On 09/29/2009 10:17 AM, Alexander Graf wrote:
KVM for PowerPC only supports embedded cores at the moment.
While it makes sense to virtualize on small machines, it's even more fun
to do so on big boxes. So I figured we need KVM for PowerPC64 as well.
This patchset implements KVM support for
On 30.09.2009, at 10:42, Avi Kivity wrote:
On 09/29/2009 10:17 AM, Alexander Graf wrote:
KVM for PowerPC only supports embedded cores at the moment.
While it makes sense to virtualize on small machines, it's even
more fun
to do so on big boxes. So I figured we need KVM for PowerPC64 as
On 09/30/2009 10:47 AM, Alexander Graf wrote:
What's the plan here? While not a requirement for merging, that's
one of the kvm points of strength and I'd like to see it supported
across the board.
I'm having a deja vu :-).
Will probably get one on every repost.
The plan is to get
On 30.09.2009, at 10:59, Avi Kivity wrote:
On 09/30/2009 10:47 AM, Alexander Graf wrote:
What's the plan here? While not a requirement for merging, that's
one of the kvm points of strength and I'd like to see it supported
across the board.
I'm having a deja vu :-).
Will probably
KVM for PowerPC only supports embedded cores at the moment.
While it makes sense to virtualize on small machines, it's even more fun
to do so on big boxes. So I figured we need KVM for PowerPC64 as well.
This patchset implements KVM support for Book3s_64 hosts and guest support
for Book3s_64 and
