On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 01:57:52PM +0200, Alexander Graf wrote:
> The current generation of virtualization extensions only supports one VM 
> layer.
> While we can't change that, it is pretty easy to emulate the CPU's behavior
> and implement the virtualization opcodes ourselves.
> 
> This patchset does exactly this for SVM. Using this, a KVM can run within a 
> VM.
> Since we're emulating the real CPU's behavior, this should also enable other
> VMMs to run within KVM.
> So far I've only tested to run KVM inside the VM though.
> 
> This was created with help from Joerg Roedel. I don't really know how put this
> information in the patchset though. Maybe set him on signed-off-by?
> 
> As always, comments and suggestions are highly welcome.

Very useful work - I need exactly this capability for building a libvirt
integration test harness. Running xen within kvm was not letting me test
libvirt's Xen HVM handling, and kvm/xen within qemu was too slow to be
viable. Hopefully xen/kvm within kvm will suit my test suite perfectly.

I'm guessing this requires that you have AMD cpus for the host ? Would it
be much more work to support VMX for those with Intel cpus too...

Daniel
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