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Re: [Xen-devel] Xen as nested guest and XSA60 fix



>>> On 16.04.14 at 04:36, <aravindp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I am running Xen unstable as a nested guest under VMware Workstation 10 and 
> ESX 5.5. Both hypervisors have support for nested EPT but do not support 
> nested VMX PAT. The fix for XSA60 disables EPT when VMX PAT is not present. 
> This causes HAP to be turned off. To help developers continue to use this 
> configuration for testing, I was wondering if the patch below will be 
> acceptable. Or is there any other way around for this?

I think that would be fine, provided you name the thing more
reasonably (in particular the name shouldn't really mention XSA-60),
add documentation for the new command line option (including a
warning that making use of the option is unsupported), and format
the patch properly.

Jan


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