From: "Mika Penttilä" <mika.penttila@nextfour.com>
To: <kvm@vger.kernel.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: kvm vmx shadow paging question
Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2016 18:47:49 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6780347b-9fe8-4d67-8046-3a28a5889e42@nextfour.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9253e6f9-8c49-97e6-b602-6e93e2977c3c@nextfour.com>
On 13.08.2016 17:38, Mika Penttilä wrote:
> Hi,
>
> While studying the vmx code, and the shadow page tables usage (no ept involved),
> I wondered the GUEST_CR3 usage. If no ept, GUEST_CR3 points to the shadow tables.
> But the format of sptes is always 64 bit. How is that with 32 bit hosts, is the GUEST_CR3
> similar to EPT format, 4 level 64 bit always or how is this working on 32 bit?
>
> Thanks,
> Mika
>
Hmm seems non PAE 32 bit host without ept enabled is not supported combination, right ?
--Mika
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