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SubjectRe: [PATCH] KVM: x86: disable on 32-bit unless CONFIG_BROKEN
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On Wed, 2022-09-28 at 16:12 +0000, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 28, 2022, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> > On 9/28/22 09:10, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> > > I also think that outside KVM developers nobody should be using KVM on 32 bit host.
> > >
> > > However for_developement_ I think that 32 bit KVM support is very useful, as it
> > > allows to smoke test the support for 32 bit nested hypervisors, which I do once in a while,
> > > and can even probably be useful to some users (e.g running some legacy stuff in a VM,
> > > which includes a hypervisor, especially to run really legacy OSes / custom bare metal software,
> > > using an old hypervisor) - or in other words, 32 bit nested KVM is mostly useless, but
> > > other 32 bit nested hypervisors can be useful.
> > >
> > > Yes, I can always use an older 32 bit kernel in a guest with KVM support, but as long
> > > as current kernel works, it is useful to use the same kernel on host and guest.
> >
> > Yeah, I would use older 32 bit kernels just like I use RHEL4 to test PIT
> > reinjection. :) But really the ultimate solution to this would be to
> > improve kvm-unit-tests so that we can compile vmx.c and svm.c for 32-bit.
>
> Agreed. I too use 32-bit KVM to validate KVM's handling of 32-bit L1 hypervisors,
> but the maintenance cost is painfully high.
>

But is is actually? I test it routinely and it it does work quite well IMHO.

As far as my opinion goes I do volunteer to test this code more often,
and I do not want to see the 32 bit KVM support be removed *yet*.

Best regards,
Maxim Levitsky

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