Nitin A Kamble
2009-May-27 18:29 UTC
[Xen-devel] [patch] Unrestricted guest support in VMX
Keir, A new VMX feature "Unrestricted Guest" feature is added in the VMX specification. You can look at the latest Intel processor manual for details of the feature here: http://www.intel.com/products/processor/manuals It allows fully virtualized guests to run real mode and unpaged mode code natively in the VMX mode when EPT is turned on. With the unrestricted guest there is no need to emulate the guest real mode code in the vm86 container or in the emulator. Also the guest big real mode code works like native. The attached patch enhances Xen to use the unrestricted guest feature if available on the processor. It also adds a new xen parameter to disable the unrestricted guest feature at the boot time. Signed-Off-By: Nitin A Kamble <nitin.a.kamble@intel.com> Thanks & Regards, Nitin _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel