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24-Dec-2011 |
grehan |
Add support for running as a nested hypervisor under VMWare Fusion, on systems with VT-x/EPT (e.g. Sandybridge Macbooks). This will most likely work on VMWare Workstation8/Player4 as well. See the VMWare app note at:
http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-8970
Fusion doesn't propagate the PAT MSR auto save-restore entry/exit control bits. Deal with this by noting that fact and setting up the PAT MSR to essentially be a no-op - it is init'd to power-on default, and a software shadow copy maintained.
Since it is treated as a no-op, o/s settings are essentially ignored. This may not give correct results, but since the hypervisor is running nested, a number of bets are already off.
On a quad-core/HT-enabled 'MacBook8,2', nested VMs with 1/2/4 vCPUs were fired up. The more nested vCPUs the worse the performance, unless the VMs were started up in multiplexed mode where things worked perfectly up to the limit of 8 vCPUs.
Reviewed by: neel
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13-May-2011 |
grehan |
Import of bhyve hypervisor and utilities, part 1. vmm.ko - kernel module for VT-x, VT-d and hypervisor control bhyve - user-space sequencer and i/o emulation vmmctl - dump of hypervisor register state libvmm - front-end to vmm.ko chardev interface
bhyve was designed and implemented by Neel Natu.
Thanks to the following folk from NetApp who helped to make this available: Joe CaraDonna Peter Snyder Jeff Heller Sandeep Mann Steve Miller Brian Pawlowski
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