On Friday 20 July 2012, Jon Masters wrote: > > I think it would be best to list the technical limitations, from the > > kernel's perspective, of the unsupported exception levels and the > > advantages of the supported exception levels here. If you want to guide > > system builders towards EL2, I think it'd be more convincing to document > > the relevant technical aspects (perhaps KVM needs facilities only > > available in EL2) than just providing an unexplained requirement. > > Unless you enter at EL2 you can never install a hypervisor. That's the > reason for the requirement for generally entering at EL2 when possible.
How do nested hypervisors work in this scenario? Does the first-level hypervisor (counting from most priviledged) provide a guest that starts in an emulated EL2 state, or is this done differently? Arnd -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/