From owner-freebsd-virtualization@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 12 00:14:06 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10C5ABDE for ; Thu, 12 Sep 2013 00:14:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from akgupt3@gmail.com) Received: from mail-we0-x230.google.com (mail-we0-x230.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c03::230]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9E9352223 for ; Thu, 12 Sep 2013 00:14:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-we0-f176.google.com with SMTP id u56so8490625wes.21 for ; Wed, 11 Sep 2013 17:14:03 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=5EKSDn7Sw85cRADO/todSt7ILESuOgvBNOTDOzK8JX0=; b=G152qRchbTkhSUiBD6LIYgUOgXxhMz49+2JGgEYOOQXnPuRMRfkkzULyYcejFZTe9u bRW0HBTBuh999TL5g+W1t7LAepmmwTNW43aOe7p9KqPRfL4X6VE4CD8+oqh07i24Wiud LJwm5r/w9wPBTa+ZQWnUtkWBx2f/yrBcho5w0GVoLejXxqf7Lgp59rCT5RAoTJrULutz a7QDF1acQeZJD2NOoXTOU+WWmCO9mbMibdUk3fkgxtz+IH7aAiParpSTQoSznmUkpfMI 0Jhx2onlZFrd2vFYDxBoZOGDDEsfZ/AGMuekLpsDZltTKdwT1eeSpHc4Bv+An/QCEF/4 fdcw== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.180.12.45 with SMTP id v13mr19220644wib.57.1378944843873; Wed, 11 Sep 2013 17:14:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.194.2.33 with HTTP; Wed, 11 Sep 2013 17:14:03 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4a4a183b5da1e1cee69c36af4a1acb08.squirrel@webmail.nyclocal.net> References: <5b2e09a5de1e75e0d478860731fb24d4.squirrel@webmail.nyclocal.net> <5230CE5E.3080400@freebsd.org> <5230DA9E.3090909@freebsd.org> <4a4a183b5da1e1cee69c36af4a1acb08.squirrel@webmail.nyclocal.net> Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 17:14:03 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: bhyve and AMD From: Anish To: Dee Nixon Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 Cc: FreeBSD virtualization X-BeenThere: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Discussion of various virtualization techniques FreeBSD supports." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 00:14:06 -0000 nRIP=97Next sequential instruction pointer from AMD programmer's manual Volume 2, appendix B This is the RIP used for next vmenter/guest execution. -Anish On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 3:52 PM, Dee Nixon wrote: > On Wed, September 11, 2013 5:20 pm, Anish wrote: > > Yes, nRIP is required and it will be hard to find AMD processor with > > SVM support that doesn't have it. We used Phenom II for bhyve port > > on AMD which is 2+ years old and has RVI and nRIP support. > > I'm sorry to have to ask this, but what is nRIP? (I tried Googling > "nRIP virtualization" and similar strings but turned up nothing > relevant. The closest I could find was a few mentions of RIP, > apparently meaning "Instruction Pointer Register" or "relative > instruction pointer".) > > >