Re: [RFC PATCH v2 0/9] KVM: Enable Nested Virt selftests

[Ganapatrao Kulkarni]

On 6/19/2025 5:15 PM, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> >   >
> > > Also, running EL2 is the least of our worries, because that's pretty
> > > easy to deal with. It is running at EL1/0 when EL2 is present that is
> > > interesting, and I see no coverage on that front.
> >
> > Sorry, I did not get this comment fully.
> > When we run selftest on Host with -g option, the guest code will run in vEL2 as L1.
> > This is implemented as per comment in V1.
> >
> > When we run same selftest from L1 shell, then guest_code will be running in EL0/1 like running from L0.
>
> What good does this bring us if we need to boot a full guest OS to run
> tests? What we need is synthetic tests that implement the whole stack:
>
> - L1 guest hypervisor
> - L2 guest hypervisor
> - L2 guest
> - L3 guest hypervisor
> - L3 guest
> - [...]

IIUC, selftest leverages host OS support and uses various IOCTLs to support the guest_code run. Are you saying to implement all this again (without OS help) in guest_code to run it as hypervisor and launch guest_code2 as NestedVM?. It seems to be complicated, doesn't it?

> This is *one* test. Not a test that runs in a guest. That's what I've
> been asking since day one.
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Thanks,
Gk