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authorCédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org>2020-08-04 15:16:39 +0200
committerDavid Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>2020-08-12 13:16:27 +1000
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docs: Update POWER9 XIVE support for nested guests
It is not yet supported. Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org> Message-Id: <20200804131639.407049-1-clg@kaod.org> Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
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@@ -61,6 +61,11 @@ depend on the XIVE KVM capability of the host. On older kernels
without XIVE KVM support, QEMU will use the emulated XIVE device as a
fallback and on newer kernels (>=5.2), the KVM XIVE device.
+XIVE native exploitation mode is not supported for KVM nested guests,
+VMs running under a L1 hypervisor (KVM on pSeries). In that case, the
+hypervisor will not advertise the KVM capability and QEMU will use the
+emulated XIVE device, same as for older versions of KVM.
+
As a final refinement, the user can also switch the use of the KVM
device with the machine option ``kernel_irqchip``.