Re: [Xen-devel] PV guest + shadow paging

To:	Tim Deegan <Tim.Deegan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject:	Re: [Xen-devel] PV guest + shadow paging
From:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx>
Date:	Tue, 23 Oct 2007 21:32:43 -0700
Cc:	Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Ian Pratt <Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Levin Johnson <levin.johnson@xxxxxxxxx>, xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Tim Deegan wrote:
> A shadow pagetable mode where Xen does the translation between
> guest-physical and machine-physical addresses for PV guests.  Normally
> PV guests do that translation themselves, because it's faster, and Xen
> does it for HVM guests because they can't do it themseves.
>   

I think we'll need it to take advantage of NPT/EPT though, right?

    J

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