[Tails-dev] Good news wrt. nested virtualization

2014-07-18 Thread intrigeri
Hi, FWIW, Intel Haswell architecture adds features (Shadow VMCS, nEPT) that, when using a recent enough qemu/kvm, make nested virtualization actually usable to run our test suite. Works fine for me :) Details: https://github.com/kashyapc/nvmx-haswell/blob/master/SETUP-nVMX.rst The bad news is

Re: [Tails-dev] Good news wrt. nested virtualization

2014-07-18 Thread boyska
On 18/07/2014 14:59, intrigeri wrote: FWIW, Intel Haswell architecture adds features (Shadow VMCS, nEPT) that, when using a recent enough qemu/kvm, make nested virtualization actually usable to run our test suite. Works fine for me :) we're also experimenting with nested virtualization. For

Re: [Tails-dev] Good news wrt. nested virtualization

2014-07-18 Thread intrigeri
Hi, boyska wrote (18 Jul 2014 13:33:53 GMT) : we're also experimenting with nested virtualization. For what I could see, it basically works, FYI, our past experience (with pre-Haswell CPUs) was so painful (read: super-slow) that we've given up. The bad news is that one needs a super-recent