These APIs were relevant when memory for virtual machine allocation was
hard partitioned away from the rest of the system but that is no longer
the case. The sysctls that provided this information were garbage collected
a while back.
Obtained from: NetApp
command line option "-m <memsize in MB>" to specify the memory size.
Prior to this change the user needed to explicitly specify the amount of
memory allocated below 4G (-m <lowmem>) and the amount above 4G (-M <highmem>).
The "-M" option is no longer supported by 'bhyveload' and 'bhyve'.
The start of the PCI hole is fixed at 3GB and cannot be directly changed
using command line options. However it is still possible to change this in
special circumstances via the 'vm_set_lowmem_limit()' API provided by
libvmmapi.
Submitted by: Dinakar Medavaram (initial version)
Reviewed by: grehan
Obtained from: NetApp
Prior to this change pinning was implemented via an ioctl (VM_SET_PINNING)
that called 'sched_bind()' on behalf of the user thread.
The ULE implementation of 'sched_bind()' bumps up 'td_pinned' which in turn
runs afoul of the assertion '(td_pinned == 0)' in userret().
Using the cpuset affinity to implement pinning of the vcpu threads works with
both 4BSD and ULE schedulers and has the happy side-effect of getting rid
of a bunch of code in vmm.ko.
Discussed with: grehan
Firmware tables require too much knowledge of system configuration,
and it's difficult to pass that information in general terms to a library.
The upcoming ACPI work exposed this - it will also livein bhyve.
Also, remove code specific to NetApp from the mptable name, and remove
the -n option from bhyve.
Reviewed by: neel
Obtained from: NetApp
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
