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

At 21:32 -0700 on 23 Oct (1193175163), Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> 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?

The joy of NPT(VMI?)/EPT is that you don't need shadow pagetables at
all. :)

Tim.

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