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