[j-nsp] VMX integrated FPC

[Mark Tees]

Digging into that a bit further, it looks like when I enabled the
Intel VT-x/EPT on a Linux VM in Vmware it booted with /dev/kvm so it
may work.

Will give it a go and report back.

On Tue, 22 Dec 2020 at 09:50, Mark Tees <marktees at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I would love to use that but it requires a CPU that has nested
> virtualisation features which my laptop doesn't have.
>
> I have another machine with a newer Intel i7 CPU but I suspect VMCS is
> Xeon only. I can always boot that second box into Linux and run KVM
> directly on it though.
>
> Food for thought.
>
> On Tue, 22 Dec 2020 at 02:59, Sander Steffann <sander at steffann.nl> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I remember when I originally got my mittens on VMX there was a boot
> > > flag to tell it to use an integrated FPC or integrated RIOT without a
> > > separate VM running forwarding. I can't find my notes on that.
> > >
> > > Does anyone know if that's still possible? I just want a pretend/low
> > > performance/fake FPC ideally.
> >
> > I think you're referring to the Nested VM Model:
> > https://www.juniper.net/documentation/en_US/vmx/topics/topic-map/vmx-nested-installing-on-kvm.html
> >
> > Cheers!
> > Sander
> >
>
>
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>
> M Tees



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