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[PATCH] kvm: userspace interface web site: http://kvm.sourceforge.net mailing list: kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net (http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel) The following patchset adds a driver for Intel's hardware virtualization extensions to the x86 architecture. The driver adds a character device (/dev/kvm) that exposes the virtualization capabilities to userspace. Using this driver, a process can run a virtual machine (a "guest") in a fully virtualized PC containing its own virtual hard disks, network adapters, and display. Using this driver, one can start multiple virtual machines on a host. Each virtual machine is a process on the host; a virtual cpu is a thread in that process. kill(1), nice(1), top(1) work as expected. In effect, the driver adds a third execution mode to the existing two: we now have kernel mode, user mode, and guest mode. Guest mode has its own address space mapping guest physical memory (which is accessible to user mode by mmap()ing /dev/kvm). Guest mode has no access to any I/O devices; any such access is intercepted and directed to user mode for emulation. The driver supports i386 and x86_64 hosts and guests. All combinations are allowed except x86_64 guest on i386 host. For i386 guests and hosts, both pae and non-pae paging modes are supported. SMP hosts and UP guests are supported. At the moment only Intel hardware is supported, but AMD virtualization support is being worked on. Performance currently is non-stellar due to the naive implementation of the mmu virtualization, which throws away most of the shadow page table entries every context switch. We plan to address this in two ways: - cache shadow page tables across tlb flushes - wait until AMD and Intel release processors with nested page tables Currently a virtual desktop is responsive but consumes a lot of CPU. Under Windows I tried playing pinball and watching a few flash movies; with a recent CPU one can hardly feel the virtualization. Linux/X is slower, probably due to X being in a separate process. In addition to the driver, you need a slightly modified qemu to provide I/O device emulation and the BIOS. Caveats (akpm: might no longer be true): - The Windows install currently bluescreens due to a problem with the virtual APIC. We are working on a fix. A temporary workaround is to use an existing image or install through qemu - Windows 64-bit does not work. That's also true for qemu, so it's probably a problem with the device model. [bero@arklinux.org: build fix] [simon.kagstrom@bth.se: build fix, other fixes] [uril@qumranet.com: KVM: Expose interrupt bitmap] [akpm@osdl.org: i386 build fix] [mingo@elte.hu: i386 fixes] [rdreier@cisco.com: add log levels to all printks] [randy.dunlap@oracle.com: Fix sparse NULL and C99 struct init warnings] [anthony@codemonkey.ws: KVM: AMD SVM: 32-bit host support] Signed-off-by: Yaniv Kamay <yaniv@qumranet.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> Cc: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@bth.se> Cc: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero@arklinux.org> Signed-off-by: Uri Lublin <uril@qumranet.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-10 02:21:36 -08:00
Use menuconfig objects II - KVM/Virt Make a "menuconfig" out of the Kconfig objects "menu, ..., endmenu", so that the user can disable all the options in that menu at once instead of having to disable each option separately. Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-05-23 14:22:11 -07:00
[S390] Kconfig: refine depends statements. Refine some depends statements to limit their visibility to the environments that are actually supported. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2007-05-10 15:45:56 +02:00
Use menuconfig objects II - KVM/Virt Make a "menuconfig" out of the Kconfig objects "menu, ..., endmenu", so that the user can disable all the options in that menu at once instead of having to disable each option separately. Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-05-23 14:22:11 -07:00
Add some help texts to recently-introduced kconfig items Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> (edited MACINTOSH_DRIVERS per Geert Uytterhoeven's remark) Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-08-18 12:56:21 +02:00
KVM: Fix virtualization menu help text What guest drivers? Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-09-22 14:43:45 +02:00
Add some help texts to recently-introduced kconfig items Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> (edited MACINTOSH_DRIVERS per Geert Uytterhoeven's remark) Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-08-18 12:56:21 +02:00
Use menuconfig objects II - KVM/Virt Make a "menuconfig" out of the Kconfig objects "menu, ..., endmenu", so that the user can disable all the options in that menu at once instead of having to disable each option separately. Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-05-23 14:22:11 -07:00
[PATCH] KVM: Put KVM in a new Virtualization menu Instead of in the main drivers menu. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-13 00:33:44 -08:00
[PATCH] kvm: userspace interface web site: http://kvm.sourceforge.net mailing list: kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net (http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel) The following patchset adds a driver for Intel's hardware virtualization extensions to the x86 architecture. The driver adds a character device (/dev/kvm) that exposes the virtualization capabilities to userspace. Using this driver, a process can run a virtual machine (a "guest") in a fully virtualized PC containing its own virtual hard disks, network adapters, and display. Using this driver, one can start multiple virtual machines on a host. Each virtual machine is a process on the host; a virtual cpu is a thread in that process. kill(1), nice(1), top(1) work as expected. In effect, the driver adds a third execution mode to the existing two: we now have kernel mode, user mode, and guest mode. Guest mode has its own address space mapping guest physical memory (which is accessible to user mode by mmap()ing /dev/kvm). Guest mode has no access to any I/O devices; any such access is intercepted and directed to user mode for emulation. The driver supports i386 and x86_64 hosts and guests. All combinations are allowed except x86_64 guest on i386 host. For i386 guests and hosts, both pae and non-pae paging modes are supported. SMP hosts and UP guests are supported. At the moment only Intel hardware is supported, but AMD virtualization support is being worked on. Performance currently is non-stellar due to the naive implementation of the mmu virtualization, which throws away most of the shadow page table entries every context switch. We plan to address this in two ways: - cache shadow page tables across tlb flushes - wait until AMD and Intel release processors with nested page tables Currently a virtual desktop is responsive but consumes a lot of CPU. Under Windows I tried playing pinball and watching a few flash movies; with a recent CPU one can hardly feel the virtualization. Linux/X is slower, probably due to X being in a separate process. In addition to the driver, you need a slightly modified qemu to provide I/O device emulation and the BIOS. Caveats (akpm: might no longer be true): - The Windows install currently bluescreens due to a problem with the virtual APIC. We are working on a fix. A temporary workaround is to use an existing image or install through qemu - Windows 64-bit does not work. That's also true for qemu, so it's probably a problem with the device model. [bero@arklinux.org: build fix] [simon.kagstrom@bth.se: build fix, other fixes] [uril@qumranet.com: KVM: Expose interrupt bitmap] [akpm@osdl.org: i386 build fix] [mingo@elte.hu: i386 fixes] [rdreier@cisco.com: add log levels to all printks] [randy.dunlap@oracle.com: Fix sparse NULL and C99 struct init warnings] [anthony@codemonkey.ws: KVM: AMD SVM: 32-bit host support] Signed-off-by: Yaniv Kamay <yaniv@qumranet.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> Cc: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@bth.se> Cc: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero@arklinux.org> Signed-off-by: Uri Lublin <uril@qumranet.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-10 02:21:36 -08:00
KVM: Use the scheduler preemption notifiers to make kvm preemptible Current kvm disables preemption while the new virtualization registers are in use. This of course is not very good for latency sensitive workloads (one use of virtualization is to offload user interface and other latency insensitive stuff to a container, so that it is easier to analyze the remaining workload). This patch re-enables preemption for kvm; preemption is now only disabled when switching the registers in and out, and during the switch to guest mode and back. Contains fixes from Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-07-11 18:17:21 +03:00
KVM: Require CONFIG_ANON_INODES Found by Sebastian Siewior and randconfig. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-22 12:40:30 +03:00
[PATCH] kvm: userspace interface web site: http://kvm.sourceforge.net mailing list: kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net (http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel) The following patchset adds a driver for Intel's hardware virtualization extensions to the x86 architecture. The driver adds a character device (/dev/kvm) that exposes the virtualization capabilities to userspace. Using this driver, a process can run a virtual machine (a "guest") in a fully virtualized PC containing its own virtual hard disks, network adapters, and display. Using this driver, one can start multiple virtual machines on a host. Each virtual machine is a process on the host; a virtual cpu is a thread in that process. kill(1), nice(1), top(1) work as expected. In effect, the driver adds a third execution mode to the existing two: we now have kernel mode, user mode, and guest mode. Guest mode has its own address space mapping guest physical memory (which is accessible to user mode by mmap()ing /dev/kvm). Guest mode has no access to any I/O devices; any such access is intercepted and directed to user mode for emulation. The driver supports i386 and x86_64 hosts and guests. All combinations are allowed except x86_64 guest on i386 host. For i386 guests and hosts, both pae and non-pae paging modes are supported. SMP hosts and UP guests are supported. At the moment only Intel hardware is supported, but AMD virtualization support is being worked on. Performance currently is non-stellar due to the naive implementation of the mmu virtualization, which throws away most of the shadow page table entries every context switch. We plan to address this in two ways: - cache shadow page tables across tlb flushes - wait until AMD and Intel release processors with nested page tables Currently a virtual desktop is responsive but consumes a lot of CPU. Under Windows I tried playing pinball and watching a few flash movies; with a recent CPU one can hardly feel the virtualization. Linux/X is slower, probably due to X being in a separate process. In addition to the driver, you need a slightly modified qemu to provide I/O device emulation and the BIOS. Caveats (akpm: might no longer be true): - The Windows install currently bluescreens due to a problem with the virtual APIC. We are working on a fix. A temporary workaround is to use an existing image or install through qemu - Windows 64-bit does not work. That's also true for qemu, so it's probably a problem with the device model. [bero@arklinux.org: build fix] [simon.kagstrom@bth.se: build fix, other fixes] [uril@qumranet.com: KVM: Expose interrupt bitmap] [akpm@osdl.org: i386 build fix] [mingo@elte.hu: i386 fixes] [rdreier@cisco.com: add log levels to all printks] [randy.dunlap@oracle.com: Fix sparse NULL and C99 struct init warnings] [anthony@codemonkey.ws: KVM: AMD SVM: 32-bit host support] Signed-off-by: Yaniv Kamay <yaniv@qumranet.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> Cc: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@bth.se> Cc: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero@arklinux.org> Signed-off-by: Uri Lublin <uril@qumranet.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-10 02:21:36 -08:00
[PATCH] KVM: Put KVM in a new Virtualization menu Instead of in the main drivers menu. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-13 00:33:44 -08:00
Use menuconfig objects II - KVM/Virt Make a "menuconfig" out of the Kconfig objects "menu, ..., endmenu", so that the user can disable all the options in that menu at once instead of having to disable each option separately. Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-05-23 14:22:11 -07:00