freebsd-skq/sys/amd64/vmm/vmm_msr.h
grehan d08191b417 Add support for running as a nested hypervisor under VMWare Fusion, on
systems with VT-x/EPT (e.g. Sandybridge Macbooks). This will most
likely work on VMWare Workstation8/Player4 as well. See the VMWare app
note at:

  http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-8970

Fusion doesn't propagate the PAT MSR auto save-restore entry/exit
control bits. Deal with this by noting that fact and setting up the
PAT MSR to essentially be a no-op - it is init'd to power-on default,
and a software shadow copy maintained.

Since it is treated as a no-op, o/s settings are essentially ignored.
This may not give correct results, but since the hypervisor is running
nested, a number of bets are already off.

On a quad-core/HT-enabled 'MacBook8,2', nested VMs with 1/2/4 vCPUs were
fired up. The more nested vCPUs the worse the performance, unless the VMs
were started up in multiplexed mode where things worked perfectly up to
the limit of 8 vCPUs.

Reviewed by:	neel
2011-12-24 19:39:02 +00:00

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/*-
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#ifndef _VMM_MSR_H_
#define _VMM_MSR_H_
#define VMM_MSR_NUM 16
struct vm;
void vmm_msr_init(void);
int emulate_wrmsr(struct vm *vm, int vcpu, u_int msr, uint64_t val);
int emulate_rdmsr(struct vm *vm, int vcpu, u_int msr);
void guest_msrs_init(struct vm *vm, int cpu);
void guest_msr_valid(int msr);
void restore_host_msrs(struct vm *vm, int cpu);
void restore_guest_msrs(struct vm *vm, int cpu);
#endif