On Sun, Jun 1, 2014 at 5:59 PM, Muli Ben-Yehuda <mu...@mulix.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 01, 2014 at 05:54:25PM +0700, Jun Koi wrote:
>
> > So this means ESXi never uses VMResume/VMLaunch? How is this
> > possible, because it uses VMX for its implementation?
>
> ESXi will fall back to binary translation if it decides that it cannot
> use VMX for some reason. Look at the L2's log file inside ESXi and you
> will likely find some errors related to running nested, MSRs KVM does
> not emulate properly, or something else that causes ESXi to use binary
> translation for its L2.
>
now i noticed in dmesg output, there is one message with content:
" VM_EXIT_LOAD_IA32_PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL does not work properly. Using
workaround"
(1) do you think this VM_EXIT_LOAD_IA32_PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL is the reason why
ESXi falls back to binary translation?
(3) how hard it is to fix this issue, so we have complete support for ESXi?
thanks,
Jun
