WARNING - OLD ARCHIVES

This is an archived copy of the Xen.org mailing list, which we have preserved to ensure that existing links to archives are not broken. The live archive, which contains the latest emails, can be found at http://lists.xen.org/
   
 
 
Xen 
 
Home Products Support Community News
 
   
 

xen-devel

Re: [Xen-devel] Xen inside Xen with VMX?

To: Ben Guthro <bguthro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Xen inside Xen with VMX?
From: Daniel Stodden <stodden@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 14:33:46 +0100
Cc: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Morten Hansen <paradigm__82@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Delivery-date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 06:42:32 -0800
Envelope-to: www-data@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <47A1BA1E.3000305@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
List-help: <mailto:xen-devel-request@lists.xensource.com?subject=help>
List-id: Xen developer discussion <xen-devel.lists.xensource.com>
List-post: <mailto:xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
List-subscribe: <http://lists.xensource.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xen-devel>, <mailto:xen-devel-request@lists.xensource.com?subject=subscribe>
List-unsubscribe: <http://lists.xensource.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xen-devel>, <mailto:xen-devel-request@lists.xensource.com?subject=unsubscribe>
Organization: Fakultät für Informatik I10, Technische Universität München
References: <BAY108-W29AA42923E886CC6DEA3A3C0370@xxxxxxx> <47A1BA1E.3000305@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sender: xen-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 07:07 -0500, Ben Guthro wrote:
> Current VT implementations do not have this ability, AFAIK.

Indeed. There's only one root mode, and the processor has no concept of
recursively stacking roots and accompanying protection levels on top of
each other.

Nonetheless, root mode could be emulated, i.e. via shadow VMCBs,
optional shadow NPTs and emulation of the respective instruction subset.

Would suffer from the same (most probably solvable) problems regarding
privilege compression and the like, but probably an interesting
excercise.

Maybe one should put it on some (nonexisting) list for interesting
[academic] projects.

regards,
daniel

-- 
Daniel Stodden
LRR     -      Lehrstuhl für Rechnertechnik und Rechnerorganisation
Institut für Informatik der TU München             D-85748 Garching
http://www.lrr.in.tum.de/~stodden         mailto:stodden@xxxxxxxxxx
PGP Fingerprint: F5A4 1575 4C56 E26A 0B33  3D80 457E 82AE B0D8 735B



_______________________________________________
Xen-devel mailing list
Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel

<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>