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Re: [Xen-devel] [SPAM] how does hypervisor isolates DomU from Dom0

To: Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [SPAM] how does hypervisor isolates DomU from Dom0
From: Tapas Mishra <mightydreams@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 16:29:36 +0530
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On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 2:18 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx> wrote:


> In case of Xen HVM guests the Xen hypervisor runs in ring -1,
Can you point me to some section of code to the above ?

> And what do you mean with "then is executed in dom0" ?
That question was due to some confusion.
I was discussing about AMD instruction sets for Xen with some one we
had this confusion so this question came.

> Dom0 is another guest VM, but it has some more privileges
I am not clear with this Dom0 is another guest ?
Can you give a link
specially to the code.


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