I am merging the code in order to start making shortcuts between VMX emulation and SVM emulation.
Of course SVM emulation is incomplete, completely untested and not expected to work.
But someone could already take a look one the code and give some suggestions.
Also looking for anybody with existing SVM kernels - as simple as possible - for testing.
Status:
- exceptions intercept is not implemented yet
- IO intercept is not implemented yet
- MSR intercept is not implemented yet
- virtual interrupts are not implemented yet
- CPUID is not implemented yet
No advanced SVM featurez planned - I am implementing the very basic 'Pacifica' document from 2005 using QEMU code as reference.
The patch was posted in mailing list at Thu 6/16/2011.
Desription for CHANGES:
- Memory
- Added new configure option which enables RAM file backing for large guest
memory with a smaller amount host memory, without causing a panic when
host memory is exhausted (patch by Gary Cameron). To enable configure with
--enable-large-ramfile option.
The ACPI support is always automatically compiled in if PCI is compiled in.
The ACPI still could be disabled using .bochsrc 'plugin_ctrl' option.
Updated CHANGES and docs as well.
--enable-vbe is now deprecated and the symbols BX_SUPPORT_VBE and
BX_SUPPORT_PCIVGA have been removed. To enable VBE support, the bochsrc option
"vga: extension=" must be set to "vbe". If PCI is present, you can assign the
"pcivga" device to a PCI slot.
Related configure options (--enable-pae, --enable-mtrr, --enable-global-pages, --enable-large-pages) are deprecated.
Less configure options - less configure problems :)
- Added configure option to compile in GUI frontend for Bochs internal
debugger, to enable configure with --enable-debugger-gui option. The GUI
debugger frontend is enabled by default with Bochs internal debugger.
If needed to compile without GUI debugger (in case of compilation issues) use --disable-debugger-gui
Averything that required cpu.h include now has it explicitly and there are a lot of files not dependant by CPU at all which will compile a lot faster now ...
