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kvm: Passthrough host CPU in order to allow nesting #2555

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Before this patch the virtual CPU was the stock qemu CPU, in the sense that
the virtual CPU features were set according to the default qemu CPU.

With this change the CPU features of the host will be copied at start to the
domain definition. This includes features like svm and vmx, which in turn allow
to run nested virtualization if the host is configured accordingly i.e.
kvm_intel nested=y in /etc/modprobe.d/kvm.conf.

To turn on nesting, a user has to specify --kvm-cpu-model host-model when
creating the VM.

Resolves #2553

Signed-off-by: Fabian Deutsch [email protected]

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kvm: Passthrough host CPU in order to allow nesting
7a4babe 
Before this patch the virtual CPU was the stock qemu CPU, in the sense that
the virtual CPU features were set according to the default qemu CPU.

With this change the CPU features of the host will be copied at start to the
domain definition. This includes features like svm and vmx, which in turn allow
to run nested virtualization if the host is configured accordingly i.e.
`kvm_intel nested=y` in `/etc/modprobe.d/kvm.conf`.

To turn on nesting, a user has to specify `--kvm-cpu-model host-model` when
creating the VM.

Resolves kubernetes#2553

Signed-off-by: Fabian Deutsch <[email protected]>
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iso: Enable KVM
5c5120d 
This patch enables KVM support inside the ISO to support nesting.

Signed-off-by: Fabian Deutsch <[email protected]>
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fabiand commented Feb 16, 2018

Should be in a reviewable state now.

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fabiand commented Feb 16, 2018

/assign @luxas

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fabiand commented Feb 16, 2018

I cna confirm that nesting works:

$ minikube ssh
                         _             _            
            _         _ ( )           ( )           
  ___ ___  (_)  ___  (_)| |/')  _   _ | |_      __  
/' _ ` _ `\| |/' _ `\| || , <  ( ) ( )| '_`\  /'__`\
| ( ) ( ) || || ( ) || || |\`\ | (_) || |_) )(  ___/
(_) (_) (_)(_)(_) (_)(_)(_) (_)`\___/'(_,__/'`\____)

$ ls -shal /dev/kvm 
0 crw-rw---- 1 root root 10, 232 Feb 16 18:54 /dev/kvm

Achieved with this patchset as is.

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r2d4 commented Feb 16, 2018

@minikube-bot ok to test

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fabiand commented Feb 17, 2018

Not sure why the tests fail.

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LGTM

Is it ok that the DefaultCPUModel is custom though?

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fabiand commented Feb 19, 2018

@zakame :)

I chose custom as it is compatible with the current settings.
We can choose to go with host-model which should also be safe (but different to the current settings), and lead to much better nesting performance.

Even if I favor to have host-model or host-passthrough by default, I tend to say that we can default to custom for a release or two, and then eventually do th switch if there was no negative feedback from host-* users.

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fabiand commented Feb 20, 2018

/cc @r2d4 any thoughts on this PR?

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pkg/minikube/cluster/cluster_linux.go Outdated
@@ -71,6 +72,7 @@ func createKVM2Host(config MachineConfig) *kvmDriver {
},
Memory: config.Memory,
CPU: config.CPUs,
CPUModel: config.KvmCPUModel,
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Is there any reason to actually pass this through as a config option? Could we hardcode it in the driver XML?

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We could hard code it if we are willing to make this change.

@michalskrivanek @berrange do you actually see a risk of defaulting to host-model? (Could you also confirm that host-model will enable nesting [assuming the host is configured accordingly])

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Since you dont care about migration you should use host-passthrough in preference to host-model.

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Revert "kvm: Passthrough host CPU in order to allow nesting"
5b004de 
This reverts commit 7a4babe.

For now we just hard-code passthrough.

Signed-off-by: Fabian Deutsch <[email protected]>
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kvm2: Switch to CPU passthrough mode by default
4bc479a 
With passthrough mode we can enable KVM nesting for guests.

Fixes kubernetes#2553

Signed-off-by: Fabian Deutsch <[email protected]>
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fabiand commented Feb 21, 2018

@dlorenc @zakame @berrange I updated the change set to set host-passthrough unconditionally/by default.

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fabiand commented Feb 21, 2018

Any opinion on this PR?

I'd be fine in going with teh hard coded solution, there should be no drawback.

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fabiand commented Feb 22, 2018

Awesome!

@fabiand fabiand deleted the hostCpu branch February 22, 2018 19:14
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