Anthony Liguori wrote: > So what we would like to do, is instead of setting up vm86 mode for the > guest to execute real mode, use x86_emulate() to just emulate the code. > This means that we wouldn't be using the "vmlaunch" instruction when in > real mode and instead would be doing an x86_emulate() loop. >
As using the emulator is likely to be slower than VT, we can call the emulator only if we are in a "VT unfriendly" state, so the code might look like if (vmx->rmode.active && big_real_mode(vmx)) ... In addition, there are some protected-mode states that VT can't handle (cs.rpl != ss.rpl IIRC) so we can emulate those cases as well. To improve speed, we may want to emulate >1 instruction per iteration. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ kvm-devel mailing list kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel