Re: [Qemu-devel] emulate the Intel-VT behavior on any type of CPU

[Alexander Graf]

On Jan 20, 2008, at 8:52 PM, andrzej zaborowski wrote:

> On 20/01/2008, Alexander Graf <address@hidden> wrote:
> > He was talking about running SVM code in KQemu/KVM. It might work  
> > with
> > kqemu (I honestly have not tested it, but see no reason it  
> > shouldn't),
> > but definitely not with KVM. Simply said, you can not run KVM inside
> > of a KVM virtualized machine.
>
> What would be the problem with supporting that in KVM? The host SVM
> should just report that the guest is trying to execute an SVM insn and
> generate an Illegal Operation which would be handled by qemu.
>
> Regards

Yes, you're completely right about this. The main reason it isn't  
implemented in kvm is that nobody did it yet. It is actually one of  
the things on my "would like to do"-list, so if things stay the way  
they are, maybe you will see this feature in kvm someday.

Regards,

Alex