Hi, all

I have a Linux 3.8 kernel (host) and run QEMU 1.5.3 on it. I want to test
another hypervisor software in qemu so I enabled KVM's nested VMX
function(by passing "nested=1" parameter to the kvm module) and then
started a guest machine. In the guest, I could see the "vmx" instruction
set by reading /proc/cpuinfo and the kvm module can be correctly inserted.
But when I read the value of the IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL MSR using msr-tools,
it showed _0_, but the correct value should be _5_, since bit
0(virtualization lock bit) and bit 2 of that MSR must be set to enable the
virtualization functionality. But in my vmware workstation guest with
nested virtualization enabled, the value of that MSR is, indeed, _5_ as
well as in the physical machine (of course). Here, I want to ask

* Am I missing anything in my operation to totally enable the nested
virtualization function ?? (I googled a lot and it seemed there were no
additional steps)

* Since the IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL MSR value should be set in BIOS and are
kept unchanged during the runtime, is there any modified BIOS that qemu can
use to enable the setting ?? Currently my qemu use the default one.
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Best Regards
Huaicheng Li

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