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RE: [Xen-users] 64-Bit Xen?

To: "Javier Guerra Giraldez" <javier@xxxxxxxxxxx>, xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [Xen-users] 64-Bit Xen?
From: "Petersson, Mats" <Mats.Petersson@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 11:43:42 +0200
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> (i'm not so sure about PAE/32bit on PV, doesn't sound soo 
> hard.. but what do i know?)

It's not hard as a concept, the only major problem is that the
page-tables in PAE is completely different from non-PAE page-tables.
This means that the hypervisor would have to use shadow-paging, which
isn't something that is available at the moment. It may be a possibility
for the future tho'. 

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Mats
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> Javier
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