1. Virtualization Technology For AMD Architecture Steve McDowell Division Marketing Manager Computation Products Group AMD steven.mcdowell @ amd.com Geoffrey Strongin Platform Security Architect Computation Products Group AMD geoffrey.strongin @ amd.com

4. Virtualization Virtualization is the pooling and abstraction of resources in a way that masks the physical nature and boundaries of those resources from the resource users

11. Core “Pacifica” Architecture

15. Core “Pacifica” Architecture Address translation: Page Tables Page Tables or Directories If this is a “Guest Physical” it must be translated to “Host Physical” via the host page tables when nested paging is enabled Input Linear/Virtual Address (LA,VA) Final Host or Guest Physical Address CR3 (Physical Address) Guest or Host Physical Address of next table

16. Core “Pacifica” Architecture Address translation: Modes with virtualization

21. Core “Pacifica” Architecture Containerized SMM flow Top: … VMMRUN [rAX] … (Examine Exit Code) … If external SMM (Setup SMM save state) VMRUN [rAX] … Loop Top Host Inst 1 Inst 2 SMI Guest RSM SMM Entry Point SMM Code SMM Save State SMI Intercept RSM Intercept