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Re: [Xen-devel] How to write protect a HVM guest page and handle the wri

To: veerasena reddy <veeruyours@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] How to write protect a HVM guest page and handle the writes to the page in hypervisor
From: Tim Deegan <Tim.Deegan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2011 09:54:17 +0100
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Hi, 

Please read http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/AskingXenDevelQuestions .

At 12:08 +0530 on 07 Jun (1307448516), veerasena reddy wrote:
> In one of requirements for my experiment, i need to
> 1. write protect a HVM guest page (the GPA of it is passed to hypervisor in
> a different hypercall)
> 2. write a function in XEN hypervisor and register this as handler for the
> page protected above.
> 
> Could you please advice, how to achieve (2).

Look at the mem_event code in current xen-unstable.  It allows you to do
this from a handler in dom0; I'm sure it would be easy to intercept and
handle inside Xen if you really need to. .

Tim.

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Tim Deegan <Tim.Deegan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Principal Software Engineer, Xen Platform Team
Citrix Systems UK Ltd.  (Company #02937203, SL9 0BG)

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