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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/2] KVM: VMX: Notify if VMX is already in use
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On Wed, 2011-12-07 at 16:26 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 12/07/2011 04:24 PM, Sasha Levin wrote:
> > >
> > > That's odd. IIRC when we discussed this with them, they were executing
> > > VMXON/VMXOFF dynamically. Looks like they changed this.
> > >
> > > Anyway, please adjust according to Joerg's comment (and add the word
> > > "using"), and I'll apply.
> >
> > I've seen it the day before I've sent those patches. vbox driver loaded,
> > kvm silently failed and rdmsr showed SVME turned on.
> >
> > Will resend.
>
> Ah, maybe they do it differently on AMD. Or they changed things.
>
> btw, was it really silent? Didn't modprobe complain?
>
> The patch makes sense in any case.

Not totally silent, there was an error about KVM failing to enable
hardware virtualization, but it was generic and didn't really point to
the problem.

--

Sasha.



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