* Avi Kivity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Note that the corner cases will never be 100% emulatable. For
> example, you can set cr3 to point at your IDE DMA mmio space or
> something like that. It's quite all right to kill the guest quietly
> at that point, as no real-life guest will do that.
yes. Or to map the lapic to the IDT ;-) (as yours truly has tried it
years ago)
that's why my suggestion is to just kill the guest. Loading such a cr3
is a serious bug that might be hard to debug in the guest. I had to
debug at least one such bug in Linux before (years ago, in the lazy TLB
switching code) and it was a royal PITA to track down. Having a
hypervisor that points any cr3 load error out /before/ the effects of
the error propagate further is a bonus, not an incompatibility. The CPU
does not implement this not because the semantics is important, but i
suspect mostly because it doesnt really know the boundaries and type of
RAM.
> The kvm goals do not include cycle accurate emulation. [...]
yes. That's why i'm suggesting to kill the VM in such a scenario. A cr3
value is only valid if it points to real RAM.
Ingo
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