On 07/23/2012 04:50 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
>>
>> Yet.
> 
> There is no mechanism in the virtualization extensions to either
> trap on or present a false value for guest accesses to the CPSR
> mode bits. So you can't make the guest OS think it is in Hypervisor
> mode. Therefore you can't provide the guest with the virtualization
> extensions. (The same argument applies for Monitor mode and means
> you can't provide the Security extensions (TrustZone) to the guest
> either.) I guess you could handle all code in the guest hypervisor
> under TCG but implementing a hybrid TCG+KVM mode would be a lot
> of effort and probably not really perform very well anyway...

Gaah, people add virtualization extensions to fix an ISA's
non-virtualizability, then do the same mistake again.

But I was only joking.  Nested virtualization is interesting technically
but so far I haven't seen any huge or even small uptake.

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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function



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