The following patches implement nested VMX support. The patches enable a guest
to use the VMX APIs in order to run its own nested guest (i.e., enable running
other hypervisors which use VMX under KVM). The current patches support running
Linux under a nested KVM using shadow page table (with bypass_guest_pf
disabled). SMP support was fixed. Reworking EPT support to mesh cleanly with
the current shadow paging design per Avi's comments is a work-in-progress.
The current patches only support a single nested hypervisor, which can only run
a single guest (multiple guests are work in progress). Only 64-bit nested
hypervisors are supported.
Additional patches for running Windows under nested KVM, and Linux under nested
VMware server(!), are currently running in the lab. We are in the process of
forward-porting those patches to -tip.
This patches were written by:
Orit Wasserman, [email protected]
Ben-Ami Yassor, [email protected]
Abel Gordon, [email protected]
Muli Ben-Yehuda, [email protected]
With contributions by:
Anthony Liguori, [email protected]
Mike Day, [email protected]
This work was inspired by the nested SVM support by Alexander Graf and Joerg
Roedel.
Changes since v1:
SMP support.
Split into 6 smaller patches.
Use nested_vmx structure for nested parameters.
Use Array for shadow VMCS offsets.
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