Thanks all - it explains a lot now! Is there any paper or doc that explains
how to test the VM example with an emulator or does these examples run only
on the real hardware?

On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 5:09 PM, Adrian Danis <[email protected]>
wrote:

> The x86 VMM requires both vt-x and vt-d support. vt-x support is easy
> enough with qemu+kvm, but I'm not sure what the vt-d support is like. I
> know vmware supports emulating both vt-x and vt-d.
>
> That is the easy part though. Due to the the way CAmkES and capDL
> presently work all hardware resources (interrupts, memory mapped IO
> regions, PCI IOSpaces, etc) must all be described statically offline. For
> this reason I would not recommend starting with the c162 configuration, as
> it has many devices described all from a particular hardware board.
>
> I would suggest starting with the optiplex9020_onevm configuration, as the
> only additional resources specified are for additional memory. See the
> 'vm0_config.ram = ...' line in apps/optiplex9020_onevm/optiplex9020.camkes.
> This describes a list of physical memory regions of the form (paddr, n)
> where the size of the region = 2^n bytes.
>
> Adrian
>
> On Thu 10-Mar-2016 7:26 AM, Corey Richardson wrote:
>
> On Wed, Mar 09, 2016 at 03:10:58PM -0500, Julien Delange wrote:
>
> Any idea about how to run this example with qemu and/or how to test it?
>
>
> Assuming you're on Linux, to run hypervisors in qemu you'll need to enable
> nested vmx. There's some basic instructions here:
>
>     
> http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/virtual/kvm/nested-vmx.txt#n45
>
> Additionally, you can nest deeper than the two levels described in that
> document, but it will get *extremely* slow, so I would not recommend trying
> it.
>
> (There may be other nuances in testing that particular project, but I am not
> personally aware of them.)
>
>
>
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