Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] pseries: Allow KVM Book3S-HV on PPC970 CPUS

2011-09-29 Thread Alexander Graf
On 29.09.2011, at 08:45, David Gibson wrote: > At present, using the hypervisor aware Book3S-HV KVM will only work > with qemu on POWER7 CPUs. PPC970 CPUs also have hypervisor > capability, but they lack the VRMA feature which makes assigning guest > memory easier. > > In order to allow KVM Boo

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] pseries: Allow KVM Book3S-HV on PPC970 CPUS

2011-09-29 Thread David Gibson
At present, using the hypervisor aware Book3S-HV KVM will only work with qemu on POWER7 CPUs. PPC970 CPUs also have hypervisor capability, but they lack the VRMA feature which makes assigning guest memory easier. In order to allow KVM Book3S-HV on PPC970, we need to specially allocate the first c