Re: [PATCH 2/2] KVM: VMX: Add Force Emulation Prefix for "emulate the next instruction"

From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
Date: Tue Mar 27 2018 - 00:56:13 EST


On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 12:40:20AM -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 07:12:15PM -0700, Wanpeng Li wrote:
> > From: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > This patch introduces a Force Emulation Prefix (ud2a; .ascii "kvm") for
> > "emulate the next instruction", the codes will be executed by emulator
> > instead of processor, for testing purposes.
>
> Can you expand a bit ? Why do you want this in KVM in the first place?
> Should this be controlled by a boolean parameter?

.. per guest. That is instead of a global one, have a per guest one?