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[Xen-devel] Re: [patch 00/21] Xen-paravirt: Xen guest implementation for

To: Zachary Amsden <zach@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-devel] Re: [patch 00/21] Xen-paravirt: Xen guest implementation for paravirt_ops interface
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Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 13:13:43 -0800 (PST)
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On Fri, 16 Feb 2007, Zachary Amsden wrote:

> For the most part, it doesn't disturb VMware or KVM.  Xen does need some
> additional functionality in paravirt-ops because they took a different design
> choice - direct page tables instead of shadow page tables.  This is where all
> the requirements for the new Xen paravirt-ops hooks come from.

It still seems to be implemented for Xen and not to support a variety of 
page table methods in paravirt ops.


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