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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/4] Implements the Windows Hypervisor Platform
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Stefan Weil |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/4] Implements the Windows Hypervisor Platform accelerator |
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Fri, 12 Jan 2018 22:57:06 +0100 |
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Am 12.01.2018 um 21:22 schrieb Justin Terry (VM) via Qemu-devel:
> Hello QEMU Community!
>
> Over the past few months the Hyper-V team at Microsoft has been working hard
> on
> a new user-mode API for our hypervisor that will be released as part of the
> upcoming SDK. This new API adds user-mode capabilities to create and manage
> partitions at the hypervisor level, configure memory mappings for the
> partition, and create and control execution of virtual processors.
>
> With this new API we are now able to bring our hypervisor to the QEMU
> community! The following patches implement the Windows Hypervisor Platform
> accelerator (WHPX) for QEMU on Windows 10 hosts.
>
> When compiling QEMU for x86_64 passing the --enable-whpx flag will compile the
> accelerator for use. At runtime using the '-accel whpx' should see a
> significant performance improvement over emulation, much like when using 'hax'
> on Windows.
>
> Over the next few days the pre-release version of the documentation for this
> new
> API will be visible at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization under
> the 'Windows Hypervisor Platform' section. Here you will see the requirements,
> API, and examples.
>
> Thank you for your feedback.
>
> Justin Terry (VM) (4):
> Add the Windows Hypervisor Platform accelerator.
> Add the WHPX vcpu API
> Introduce the WHPX impl
> Add the WHPX acceleration enlightenments
>
> accel/stubs/Makefile.objs | 9 +-
> accel/stubs/whpx-stub.c | 48 ++
> configure | 48 +-
> cpus.c | 66 ++-
> include/sysemu/hw_accel.h | 13 +
> include/sysemu/whpx.h | 40 ++
> qemu-options.hx | 8 +-
> target/i386/Makefile.objs | 1 +
> target/i386/helper.c | 2 +-
> target/i386/whpx-all.c | 1395
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 10 files changed, 1619 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 accel/stubs/whpx-stub.c
> create mode 100644 include/sysemu/whpx.h
> create mode 100644 target/i386/whpx-all.c
Thank you for this contribution – I'll test it.
The patches 2 and 3 fail the test with scripts/checkpatch.pl. Please fix
that in the next iteration (maybe wait a little until there was more
feedback).
Regards,
Stefan
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/4] Implements the Windows Hypervisor Platform accelerator, Justin Terry (VM), 2018/01/12
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/4] Implements the Windows Hypervisor Platform accelerator, Paolo Bonzini, 2018/01/12
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/4] Add the Windows Hypervisor Platform accelerator., Justin Terry (VM), 2018/01/12
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/4] Add the WHPX vcpu API, Justin Terry (VM), 2018/01/12
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/4] Add the WHPX acceleration enlightenments, Justin Terry (VM), 2018/01/12
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/4] Introduce the WHPX impl, Justin Terry (VM), 2018/01/12
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/4] Implements the Windows Hypervisor Platform accelerator,
Stefan Weil <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/4] Implements the Windows Hypervisor Platform accelerator, no-reply, 2018/01/12