Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 1/2] target-i386: KVM: add basic Intel LMCE support

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 03/06/2016 17:57, Radim Krčmář wrote:
>> > +                cenv->msr_ia32_feature_control |=
>> > +                    MSR_IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL_LMCE |
>> > +                    MSR_IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL_LOCKED;
> Locking right from the start breaks nested KVM, because nested relies on
> setting VMXON feature from inside of the guest.
> 
> Do we keep it unlocked, or move everything into QEMU?
> 
> (The latter seems simpler.)

I think it should be moved into the firmware, with QEMU publishing the
desired setting via fw_cfg.  The same as what is done in real hardware,
that's the KVM mantra. :)

For v4 it's okay to just remove this.

Paolo