Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 30 Oct 2007 12:34:25 +0100 | From | Jan Kiszka <> | Subject | Re: [kvm-devel] 2.6.23.1-rt4 and kvm 48 |
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Avi Kivity wrote: > Jan Kiszka wrote: >> Interesting result - you've read about the wbinvd issues? Is there no >> wbinvd in the bios shipped with older kvm? Which VM extension did you >> test, both Intel and AMD? I would bet that your X issues are due to the >> same effect. X startup/shutdown involves a lot of wbinvd calls on my >> test boxes. >> >> > > kvm.git now traps invd and wbinvd on amd, so there shouldn't be any > issues there.
So kvm can then simply ignore the instructions, or what does it do about them? I recall some replies in the related thread that some more work may be required.
> I hope that Intel will add similar traps in future > iterations of VT.
Yep.
Jan
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