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Re: KVM PV (was: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] x86/lguest: remove lguest support)

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----- Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai+lkml@gmail.com> ha scritto:
> On Sat, Sep 30, 2017 at 12:39 AM, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:
> > On 29/09/2017 17:47, Lai Jiangshan wrote:
> >> Hello, all
> >>
> >> An interesting (at least to me) thinking came up to me when I found
> >> that the lguest was removed. But I don't have enough knowledge
> >> to find out the answer nor energy to implement it in some time.
> >>
> >> Is it possible to implement kvm-pv which allows kvm to run on
> >> the boxes without hardware virtualization support, so that
> >> qemu/kvm can be used on clouds such as aws, azure?
> >
> > No, please don't. :)  Even Xen is moving from PV to PVH (paravirtualized
> > hardware with event channels, grant tables and the like, but still using
> > hardware extensions for MMU).
> >
> > Rather, cloud providers should help getting nested virtualization ready
> > for production use.  At least for KVM it's not that far.
> >
> 
> Although I'm not business man, I don't think the top cloud provider[s]
> would allow nested virtualization, however mature nested virtualization
> is. Even xen-pv is unable to be nested in the aws and azure.

Check the contributors to KVM nested virtualization, you might be surprised.

Nested Xen PV is not possible because the Xen hypervisor cannot run as a PV guest. It's a technical limitation.

Paolo

> 
> Thanks,
> Lai
> 
> >

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KVM PV (was: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] x86/lguest: remove lguest support) Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai+lkml@gmail.com> - 2017-09-29 17:50 +0200
  Re: KVM PV (was: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] x86/lguest: remove lguest  support) Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> - 2017-09-29 18:40 +0200
    Re: KVM PV (was: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] x86/lguest: remove lguest support) Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai+lkml@gmail.com> - 2017-09-30 02:10 +0200
      Re: KVM PV (was: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] x86/lguest: remove lguest  support) Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> - 2017-09-30 05:40 +0200
        Re: [Xen-devel] KVM PV (was: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] x86/lguest: remove  lguest support) George Dunlap <george.dunlap@citrix.com> - 2017-10-02 12:40 +0200
          Re: [Xen-devel] KVM PV Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> - 2017-10-02 14:20 +0200
    Re: [Xen-devel] KVM PV (was: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] x86/lguest: remove  lguest support) George Dunlap <dunlapg@umich.edu> - 2017-10-02 12:20 +0200

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