Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Avi Kivity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>   
>>> hm. Could you try to just do a vmresume nevertheless - maybe it works 
>>> but is undocumented?
>>>       
>> I'd hate to do that.  There are at least three implementations of VT 
>> (PD, Core, Core2) and maybe more when steppings and microcode updates 
>> are considered.  Not to mention having kvm fail when a new cpu is 
>> introduced is not a pleasant scenario.
>>     
>
> lets check whether it's even possible ... Then we could ask Intel to 
> clarify their position on this. I can see no real reason why a vmclear 
> should really make it impossible to re-use the already loaded context 
> data /on the same CPU/. And that is the important case. When we migrate 
> to another CPU we have to do a VMLAUNCH anyway, upon the first execution 
> of that context.
>
>   

There's a documented error number, 5, for "VMRESUME with non-launched vmcs".

Furthermore, I checked, and it indeed doesn't work.


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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function


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