KVM: VMX: Support Unrestricted Guest feature
"Unrestricted Guest" feature is added in the VMX specification. Intel Westmere and onwards processors will support this feature. It allows kvm guests to run real mode and unpaged mode code natively in the VMX mode when EPT is turned on. With the unrestricted guest there is no need to emulate the guest real mode code in the vm86 container or in the emulator. Also the guest big real mode code works like native. The attached patch enhances KVM to use the unrestricted guest feature if available on the processor. It also adds a new kernel/module parameter to disable the unrestricted guest feature at the boot time. Signed-off-by: Nitin A Kamble <nitin.a.kamble@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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