Re: [Tails-dev] Good news wrt. nested virtualization

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Author: boyska
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Subject: Re: [Tails-dev] Good news wrt. nested virtualization
On 18/07/2014 14:59, intrigeri wrote:
> FWIW, Intel Haswell architecture adds features (Shadow VMCS, nEPT)
> that, when using a recent enough qemu/kvm, make nested virtualization
> actually usable to run our test suite. Works fine for me :)


we're also experimenting with nested virtualization. For what I could
see, it basically works, but actually I have not done extensive
testings, nor I managed to setup tails unit tests inside a virtual machine.

> The bad news is that one needs a super-recent Intel CPU to take
> advantage of this. Others will still need to either run the test suite
> directly on their usual system, or to get a dedicated machine to
> run it.


I think there's room for colaboration at a "hardware level", then ;)
We have one of those.

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