Re: Windows 10 won't run on default x86_64 machine anymore

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 16/03/21 17:27, Reinoud Zandijk wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 01:49:57PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> > On 16/03/21 13:13, Igor Mammedov wrote:
> > > > Although I don't know about nvmm case, this function also needs to be updated
> > > > if smi isn't supported.
> > > can you submit a patch for this please?
>
> > nvmm is not part of upstream yet, so I guess it's up to Reinoud to fix it.
> > Still, reproducing his testing conditions with KVM and -M smm=off is
> > probably interesting because it also affects HAX, HVF and WHPX which are
> > supported upstream.
>
> As stated in my other mail, I think NVMM supports the SMI.

I doubt, even KVM only supports it as a kind of "fringe" feature for 
secure boot.  But anyway, feel free to post the patches now and we'll 
have time to do more passes if needed, during the freeze.

Paolo

> We would have liked
> to add NVMM in the comming 6.0 release but I see we missed the timeframe as
> the soft feature freeze date is today.
>
> It was posted here some months before but somehow it got stalled and when the
> main NVMM developer left the project to persuit other things it kind of
> stalled. I've now forward ported NVMM support to todays Qemu sources.
>
> With regards,
> Reinoud