Re: uvmm support for AMD-V

Hi,

On Wed Jul 15, 2020 at 20:49:14 -0700, Andreas Steinmetzler wrote:
> I followed the tutorials on github to get a basic L4re environment compiled
> and running (Hello World) on a embedded x86 board (more specifically APU2
> https://www.pcengines.ch/apu2.htm). Everything worked fine - really nice
> tutorial.
> 
> Next, I was using the single Linux VM guide to move on getting to more
> interesting stuff and uvmm stopped with the following error message
> 
>     "VMM: FATAL: Unsupported HW virtualization type.: Invalid request"
> 
> While reading more of the documentation I looks to me that uvmm is not
> supporting AMD-V (last sentence in
> https://github.com/kernkonzept/uvmm/blob/master/doc/uvmm.dox).
> 
> Wondering if there is a fundamental shortcoming of the AMD-V extensions or
> is it just missing because nobody worked on it?

There's nothing fundamental, it's just as you guessed, someone would
need to work on it.


Adam