address associated with the guest memory segment. This is because there is
no longer a 1:1 mapping between GPA and HPA.
As a result 'vmmctl' can only display the guest physical address and the
length of the lowmem and highmem segments.
chunks. This breaks the assumption that the entire memory segment is
contiguously allocated in the host physical address space.
This also paves the way to satisfy the 4KB page allocations by requesting
free pages from the VM subsystem as opposed to hard-partitioning host memory
at boot time.
CR4. This bit is specific to the Intel VTX and removing it makes the library
more portable to AMD/SVM.
In the Intel VTX implementation, the hypervisor will ensure that this bit is
always set. See vmx_fix_cr4() for details.
Suggested by: grehan
Includes instruction emulation for memory r/w access. This
opens the door for io-apic, local apic, hpet timer, and
legacy device emulation.
Submitted by: ryan dot berryhill at sandvine dot com
Reviewed by: grehan
Obtained from: Sandvine
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