>
> Hi Hans,
>
> On Mon, 3 Feb 2014, Hans de Goede wrote:
>> BTW why are you enabling LPAE? Have you tried using just KVM ? For
>> the sunxi stuff there is little reason to enable LPAE.
>
> I have not looked into that in detail ... there is dependency in the
> kernel configuration so that KVM will not show up as an option if LPAE is
> not set. That was/is the only reason why I have enabled LPAE.
>
> BTW, I did further checks .. and indeed enabling LPAE is the
> trouble-maker. I will try to do some tests by breaking the config
> dependency between LPAE and KVM.
>
> I will keep the list posted.
>
> Udo
Virt on ARM requires LPAE in order to function; virt uses the address translation
bits in LPAE for the address translation between the guest and host.
Thanks much,
John Dulaney, RHCE
GSS Kernel team.