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Re: [Xen-devel] Guest OS without paging

To: Ivan Kelly <ivan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Mark Williamson <mark.williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Guest OS without paging
From: Gabriel Gonzalez <gabriel.gonzalez.garcia@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 14:53:20 +0100
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A minix version which support paging is out there. www.minix-vmd.org

Best wishes,

  Gabriel Gonzalez.

On 11/7/05, Ivan Kelly <ivan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Is this for a custom guest?  The domain builder will give you a set of
> > bootstrap pagetables - this might even be enough for your if your guest OS
> > has tiny memory requirements.  If you need more, your guest should probably
> > build one pagetable at startup that maps all of the available memory, then
> > use that table for everything.
> im porting minix, so the custom guest will be that. Im having to create a new
> builder for it, because it's a.out format and only compiles with amsterdam
> compiler kit. porting to gcc would be quite a big job. the kernel image itself
> is also a strange format, not just a.out, but multiple a.out processes
> concatenated together. For these reasons i decided a new builder was needed.
> could I get the builder to map all the available memory into the bootstrap
> pagetables?
> Regards
> Ivan Kelly
>
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