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Need required about using intel-vt into guests (nested)

berthe_b — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 11:48:32 GMT

Hi, i'm creating a hypervisor based on Intel-vt extensions, each VM must be able to have it's own hypervisor with Intel-vt (i don't have choice).

The probleme is to use a hypervisor into a VM with Intel-VT require to be in root-operation to perfectly use virtualization instructions such as VMCALL, VMREAD ... But each vm-exit will only give control to the first hypervisor.

So the sub-monitor will never be used.

How can i do that ? Is nested virtualization with Intel-VT is realy possible without modifying guest ?

Thanks a lot.

Need required about using intel-vt into guests (nested)

Quoc-Thai_L_Intel — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 18:40:46 GMT

Hi,
I found a section "Handling Boundary Conditions in a Virtual Machine Monitor" in the guide that I provided the link below that may give you some hints.

Intel 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's Manual

Volume 3C: System Programming Guide, Part 3

-Thai

Need required about using intel-vt into guests (nested)

Quoc-Thai_L_Intel — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 17:28:40 GMT

Hi,
My colleague mentions that you can look intothe source code from xen.org for an example of the nested virtualization.
-Thai