the maximum number of VT-d domains (256 on a Sandybridge). We now allocate a
VT-d domain for a guest only if the administrator has explicitly configured
one or more PCI passthru device(s).
If there are no PCI passthru devices configured (the common case) then the
number of virtual machines is no longer limited by the maximum number of
VT-d domains.
Reviewed by: grehan@
Approved by: re@
of unloading the module while VMs existed. This would
result in EBUSY, but would prevent further operations
on VMs resulting in the module being impossible to
unload.
Submitted by: Tycho Nightingale (tycho.nightingale <at> plurisbusnetworks.com)
Reviewed by: grehan, neel
Rework the guest register fetch code to allow the RIP to
be extracted from the VMCS while the kernel decoder is
functioning.
Hit by the OpenBSD local-apic code.
Submitted by: neel
Reviewed by: grehan
Obtained from: NetApp
This can be done by using the new macros VMM_STAT_INTEL() and VMM_STAT_AMD().
Statistic counters that are common across the two are defined using VMM_STAT().
Suggested by: Anish Gupta
Discussed with: 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
The maximum length of an environment variable puts a limitation on the
number of passthru devices that can be specified via a single variable.
The workaround is to allow user to specify passthru devices via multiple
environment variables instead of a single one.
Obtained from: NetApp
that 'smp_started != 0'.
This is required because the VT-x initialization calls smp_rendezvous()
to set the CR4_VMXE bit on all the cpus.
With this change we can preload vmm.ko from the loader.
Reported by: alfred@, sbruno@
Obtained from: NetApp
guest does a vm exit.
This allows us to trap any fpu access in the host context while the fpu still
has "dirty" state belonging to the guest.
Reported by: "s vas" on freebsd-virtualization@
Obtained from: NetApp
host cpu to the scheduler until the guest is ready to run again.
This implies that the host cpu utilization will now closely mirror the actual
load imposed by the guest vcpu.
Also, the vcpu mutex now needs to be of type MTX_SPIN since we need to acquire
it inside a critical section.
Obtained from: NetApp
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.
associated with guest physical memory is contiguous.
Add check to vm_gpa2hpa() that the range indicated by [gpa,gpa+len) is all
contained within a single 4KB page.
associated with guest physical memory is contiguous.
In this case vm_malloc() was using vm_gpa2hpa() to indirectly infer whether
or not the address range had already been allocated.
Replace this instead with an explicit API 'vm_gpa_available()' that returns
TRUE if a page is available for allocation in guest physical address space.
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
