Hello, all

An interesting (at least to me) thinking came up to me when I found
that the lguest was removed. But I don't have enough knowledge
to find out the answer nor energy to implement it in some time.

Is it possible to implement kvm-pv which allows kvm to run on
the boxes without hardware virtualization support, so that
qemu/kvm can be used on clouds such as aws, azure?

Without hardware virtualization support, the host kvm-pv module and
the guest linux kernel need to cooperate in some ways. And some kvm
facilities can help. For instance, the existing shadow-paging, which
was not introduced when lguest had been added to kernel, could be
reused to help on mmu virtualization. For guest kernel/userspace
separation in x86_64, the intel cpu's segment registers can help too.
(or use a new set of page-table for the guest kernel on amd64).

The thought is quite shallow, but I hope this email brings some
inspirations rather than annoyance. And I'm sorry if the later things
would happen.

Thanks,
Lai.

On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 1:31 AM, Juergen Gross [off-list ref] wrote:

Lguest seems to be rather unused these days. It has seen only patches
ensuring it still builds the last two years and its official state is
"Odd Fixes".

Nuke it in order to be able to clean up the paravirt code.