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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>,
	"Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>
Cc: ehabkost@redhat.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org, mtosatti@redhat.com,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Liran Alon <liran.alon@oracle.com>,
	rth@twiddle.net, jmattson@google.com
Subject: Re: [QEMU PATCH v2 0/2]: KVM: i386: Add support for save and restore nested state
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2018 17:53:38 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <81d4f6c0-ede1-8986-8d7f-1741fc6de18a@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181112165053.GF2293@work-vm>

On 12/11/2018 17:50, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
>> Migration has always been busted historically, so those people using
>> nested VMX already won't be hurt by not having ability to live migrate
>> their VM, but could otherwise continue using them without being forced
>> to upgrade their kernel to fix a feature they're not even using.
> Yes, although I am a bit worried we might have a population of users
> that:
>    a) Have enabled nesting
>    b) Run VMs with vmx enabled
>    c) Don't normally actually run nested guests
>    d) Currently happily migrate.

Hmm, let's add a migration blocker for nested virtualization.

Paolo

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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>,
	"Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>
Cc: Liran Alon <liran.alon@oracle.com>,
	jmattson@google.com, ehabkost@redhat.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
	mtosatti@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, rth@twiddle.net
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [QEMU PATCH v2 0/2]: KVM: i386: Add support for save and restore nested state
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2018 17:53:38 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <81d4f6c0-ede1-8986-8d7f-1741fc6de18a@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181112165053.GF2293@work-vm>

On 12/11/2018 17:50, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
>> Migration has always been busted historically, so those people using
>> nested VMX already won't be hurt by not having ability to live migrate
>> their VM, but could otherwise continue using them without being forced
>> to upgrade their kernel to fix a feature they're not even using.
> Yes, although I am a bit worried we might have a population of users
> that:
>    a) Have enabled nesting
>    b) Run VMs with vmx enabled
>    c) Don't normally actually run nested guests
>    d) Currently happily migrate.

Hmm, let's add a migration blocker for nested virtualization.

Paolo

  reply	other threads:[~2018-11-12 16:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 96+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-09-16 12:46 [QEMU PATCH v2 0/2]: KVM: i386: Add support for save and restore nested state Liran Alon
2018-09-16 12:46 ` [Qemu-devel] " Liran Alon
2018-09-16 12:46 ` [QEMU PATCH v2 1/2] i386: Compile CPUX86State xsave_buf only when support KVM or HVF Liran Alon
2018-09-16 12:46   ` [Qemu-devel] " Liran Alon
2018-09-16 12:46 ` [QEMU PATCH v2 2/2] KVM: i386: Add support for save and restore nested state Liran Alon
2018-09-16 12:46   ` [Qemu-devel] " Liran Alon
2018-10-08 17:21 ` [QEMU PATCH v2 0/2]: " Liran Alon
2018-10-08 17:21   ` [Qemu-devel] " Liran Alon
2018-10-15 18:10   ` Liran Alon
2018-10-15 18:10     ` [Qemu-devel] " Liran Alon
2018-10-31  1:03     ` Liran Alon
2018-10-31  1:03       ` [Qemu-devel] " Liran Alon
2018-10-31 18:17       ` Eduardo Habkost
2018-10-31 18:17         ` [Qemu-devel] " Eduardo Habkost
2018-10-31 18:19         ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-10-31 18:19           ` [Qemu-devel] " Paolo Bonzini
2018-10-31 18:50           ` Liran Alon
2018-10-31 18:50             ` [Qemu-devel] " Liran Alon
2018-10-31 18:59             ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2018-10-31 18:59               ` [Qemu-devel] " Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2018-10-31 23:17               ` Liran Alon
2018-10-31 23:17                 ` [Qemu-devel] " Liran Alon
2018-11-01 13:10                 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2018-11-01 13:10                   ` [Qemu-devel] " Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2018-11-01 15:23                   ` Liran Alon
2018-11-01 15:23                     ` [Qemu-devel] " Liran Alon
2018-11-01 15:56                     ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2018-11-01 15:56                       ` [Qemu-devel] " Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2018-11-01 16:45                       ` Jim Mattson via Qemu-devel
2018-11-01 16:45                         ` [Qemu-devel] " Jim Mattson
2018-11-02  3:46                         ` Liran Alon
2018-11-02  3:46                           ` [Qemu-devel] " Liran Alon
2018-11-02  9:40                           ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-11-02  9:40                             ` [Qemu-devel] " Paolo Bonzini
2018-11-02 12:35                             ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2018-11-02 12:35                               ` [Qemu-devel] " Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2018-11-02 12:40                               ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2018-11-02 12:40                                 ` [Qemu-devel] " Daniel P. Berrangé
2018-11-04 22:12                               ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-11-04 22:12                                 ` [Qemu-devel] " Paolo Bonzini
2018-11-02 12:59                             ` Liran Alon
2018-11-02 12:59                               ` [Qemu-devel] " Liran Alon
2018-11-02 16:44                               ` Jim Mattson via Qemu-devel
2018-11-02 16:44                                 ` [Qemu-devel] " Jim Mattson
2018-11-02 16:58                                 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2018-11-02 16:58                                   ` [Qemu-devel] " Daniel P. Berrangé
2018-11-02 17:01                                   ` Jim Mattson via Qemu-devel
2018-11-02 17:01                                     ` [Qemu-devel] " Jim Mattson
2018-11-02 16:54                             ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2018-11-02 16:54                               ` [Qemu-devel] " Daniel P. Berrangé
2018-11-02 16:58                               ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2018-11-02 16:58                                 ` [Qemu-devel] " Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2018-11-04 22:19                               ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-11-04 22:19                                 ` [Qemu-devel] " Paolo Bonzini
2018-11-12 16:18                                 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2018-11-12 16:18                                   ` [Qemu-devel] " Daniel P. Berrangé
2018-11-12 16:50                                   ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2018-11-12 16:50                                     ` [Qemu-devel] " Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2018-11-12 16:53                                     ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2018-11-12 16:53                                       ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-11-12 16:54                                     ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2018-11-12 16:54                                       ` [Qemu-devel] " Daniel P. Berrangé
2018-11-13  0:00                                       ` Liran Alon
2018-11-13  0:00                                         ` [Qemu-devel] " Liran Alon
2018-11-13  0:07                                         ` Jim Mattson via Qemu-devel
2018-11-13  0:07                                           ` [Qemu-devel] " Jim Mattson
2018-11-13  0:09                                           ` Liran Alon
2018-11-13  0:09                                             ` [Qemu-devel] " Liran Alon
2018-11-12 23:58                                     ` Liran Alon
2018-11-12 23:58                                       ` [Qemu-devel] " Liran Alon
2018-11-02 16:39                           ` Jim Mattson via Qemu-devel
2018-11-02 16:39                             ` [Qemu-devel] " Jim Mattson
2018-11-03  2:02                             ` Liran Alon
2018-11-03  2:02                               ` [Qemu-devel] " Liran Alon
2018-11-08  0:13                               ` Liran Alon
2018-11-08  0:13                                 ` [Qemu-devel] " Liran Alon
2018-11-08  0:45                                 ` Jim Mattson via Qemu-devel
2018-11-08  0:45                                   ` [Qemu-devel] " Jim Mattson
2018-11-08  9:50                                   ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-11-08  9:50                                     ` [Qemu-devel] " Paolo Bonzini
2018-11-08  9:57                                     ` Liran Alon
2018-11-08  9:57                                       ` [Qemu-devel] " Liran Alon
2018-11-08 17:02                                       ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-11-08 17:02                                         ` [Qemu-devel] " Paolo Bonzini
2018-11-08 18:41                                         ` Liran Alon
2018-11-08 18:41                                           ` [Qemu-devel] " Liran Alon
2018-11-08 20:34                                           ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-11-08 20:34                                             ` [Qemu-devel] " Paolo Bonzini
2018-11-12 14:51                                           ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2018-11-12 14:51                                             ` [Qemu-devel] " Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2018-11-01 19:03                       ` Liran Alon
2018-11-01 19:03                         ` [Qemu-devel] " Liran Alon
2018-11-01 19:07                         ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2018-11-01 19:07                           ` [Qemu-devel] " Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2018-11-01 19:41                           ` Jim Mattson via Qemu-devel
2018-11-01 19:41                             ` [Qemu-devel] " Jim Mattson

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