Nested VMX was enabled by default in commit
1e58e5e59148 ("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: Yu Zhang <yu.c.zhang@linux.intel.com>
Message-Id: <
20210128154747.4242-1-yu.c.zhang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Running nested VMX
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-The nested VMX feature is disabled by default. It can be enabled by giving
-the "nested=1" option to the kvm-intel module.
+The nested VMX feature is enabled by default since Linux kernel v4.20. For
+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
emulated CPU type (qemu64) does not list the "VMX" CPU feature, so it must be
Enabling "nested" (x86)
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-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
override this default.)