I want to set up an EPT page so as to trigger the #VE for testing purpose. However, some problems are met.
As the Intel Manual said, there are many conditions to trigger a #VE: a) If an access to a guest-physical address causes an EPT violation, bit 63 (0) of exactly one of the EPT paging-structure entries used to translate that address is used to determine *whether the EPT violation is convertible*: either an entry that is not present (if the guest-physical address does not translate to a physical address) or an entry that maps a page (if it does). b) A convertible EPT violation instead causes a virtualization exception if the following all hold: • CR0.PE = 1; • the logical processor is not in the process of delivering an event through the IDT; and • the 32 bits at offset 4 in the virtualization-exception information area are all 0. In xc_altp2m.c <http://In xc_altp2m.c, there is a function xc_altp2m_set_vcpu_enable_notify which is used to set up the #VE information area. However, as the>, there is a function xc_altp2m_set_vcpu_enable_notify which is used to set up the #VE information area. However, as the arguments gfn is a physical address (of the guest?), how can I safely assign an unused physical memory space to store #VE info? Besides, there is no xenctrl interface for setting the suprress_ve bit (63) of the EPT PTE, which is needed to trigger #VE. Even though I can set that with ept_set_entry function, this is an internal function of Xen and unavailble to dom0.
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