On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 03:48:35PM +0200, [email protected] wrote:
> From: Orit Wasserman <[email protected]>
>
> This patch implements nested VMX support. It enables a guest to use the
> VMX APIs in order to run its own nested guest (i.e., it enables
> running other hypervisors which use VMX under KVM). The current patch
> supports running Linux under a nested KVM. Additional patches for
> running Windows under nested KVM, and Linux and Windows under nested
> VMware server(!), are currently running in the lab. We are in the
> process of forward-porting those patches to -tip.
>
> The current patch only supports a single nested hypervisor, which can
> only run a single guest. SMP is not supported yet when running nested
> hypervisor (work in progress). Only 64 bit nested hypervisors are
> supported. Currently only EPT mode in both host and nested hypervisor
> is supported (i.e., both hypervisors must use EPT).
>
> This patch was written by:
> Orit Wasserman, [email protected]
> Ben-Ami Yassour, [email protected]
> Abel Gordon, [email protected]
> Muli Ben-Yehuda, [email protected]
>
> With contributions by
> Anthony Liguori, [email protected]
> Mike Day, [email protected]
Nice work. Do you have any performance numbers?
Joerg
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