Re: [PATCH] KVM: VMX: require virtual NMI support

From: Zdenek Kaspar
Date: Wed Sep 13 2017 - 13:23:46 EST


On 03/27/2017 02:38 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Virtual NMIs are only missing in Prescott and Yonah chips. Both are obsolete
> for virtualization usage---Yonah is 32-bit only even---so drop vNMI emulation.
>
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 143 ++++++++++++++---------------------------------------
> 1 file changed, 38 insertions(+), 105 deletions(-)

This breaks virtualization on old Intel Core2 machines.
Any chance to revert?

TIA, Z.