KVM & Xen Don't Change Much With Linux 4.15

[phoronix]

Phoronix: KVM & Xen Don't Change Much With Linux 4.15

There are a ton of exciting improvements building up in Linux 4.15, but not too much on the virtualization front...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=KVM-Xen-Linux-4.15

[benklett]

Sadly the NPT fix for AMD platforms in KVM didn't make it in.

[tildearrow]

Typo:

is AMD Secure Encrypred Virtualization support (SEV)

[nuetzel]

Sadly the NPT fix for AMD platforms in KVM didn't make it in.

I think that there is enought time to get it in, finally.
Maybe you send a reminder to the developers (Red Hat's Paolo Bonzini/Geoffrey McRae gnif/AMD (are you listening?))?

[benklett]

Maybe you send a reminder to the developers (Red Hat's Paolo Bonzini/Geoffrey McRae gnif/AMD (are you listening?))?

I don't know. The patch was in the queue branch until they sent out their 4.15 stuff. Now the NPT patch has moved to linux-next. If I understand it correctly, this means they don't want to get it in right now.

[benklett]

I don't know. The patch was in the queue branch until they sent out their 4.15 stuff. Now the NPT patch has moved to linux-next. If it understand it correctly, this means they want to get it in right now.

Because the post had to be reviewed, I didn't notice my error. I wanted to say they don't want to get it in right now (this merge window).

[timofonic]

Still no proper iGVT-G support in both KVM or Xen without requiring ridicule remote desktop software. What about the dma_buf experiments?

How disappointing...

[gnif]

Sadly the NPT fix for AMD platforms in KVM didn't make it in.

Actually it did!

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=7753ea09640807104c8e353f6d5dc47ee55307cf