Commit ae000861 authored by Yu Zhang's avatar Yu Zhang Committed by Paolo Bonzini

KVM: Documentation: Fix documentation for nested.

Nested VMX was enabled by default in commit 1e58e5e5 ("KVM:
VMX: enable nested virtualization by default"), which was merged
in Linux 4.20. This patch is to fix the documentation accordingly.
Signed-off-by: default avatarYu Zhang <yu.c.zhang@linux.intel.com>
Message-Id: <20210128154747.4242-1-yu.c.zhang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
parent 074489b7
...@@ -37,8 +37,10 @@ call L2. ...@@ -37,8 +37,10 @@ call L2.
Running nested VMX Running nested VMX
------------------ ------------------
The nested VMX feature is disabled by default. It can be enabled by giving The nested VMX feature is enabled by default since Linux kernel v4.20. For
the "nested=1" option to the kvm-intel module. older Linux kernel, it can be enabled by giving the "nested=1" option to the
kvm-intel module.
No modifications are required to user space (qemu). However, qemu's default No modifications are required to user space (qemu). However, qemu's default
emulated CPU type (qemu64) does not list the "VMX" CPU feature, so it must be emulated CPU type (qemu64) does not list the "VMX" CPU feature, so it must be
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...@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ few: ...@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ few:
Enabling "nested" (x86) Enabling "nested" (x86)
----------------------- -----------------------
From Linux kernel v4.19 onwards, the ``nested`` KVM parameter is enabled From Linux kernel v4.20 onwards, the ``nested`` KVM parameter is enabled
by default for Intel and AMD. (Though your Linux distribution might by default for Intel and AMD. (Though your Linux distribution might
override this default.) override this default.)
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