RE: [Xen-devel] VT-x and frontend/backend drivers

["Ling, Xiaofeng" <xiaofeng.ling@xxxxxxxxx>]

We already have patches for para-dirver support sent to this list before, you 
can
search it if you need.

Mark Ryden <> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>   As I saw in this mailing list, there should be some
>       emulation solution for drivers when using VT-x processors.
> 
> See for example :
> http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2005-12/msg00763.html
> 
> My question is this;
> 
>   As I understand, the VMX support in the new  VT-x processors
>  enables us to prevent Guest OSs from performing unwanted
>   instructions (HLT , for example). This is done by using the root
> and non-root VMX operation. Thus , we don't use paravirtualization
> and we can run unmodified guest. Is there a possibility or any
> intention of using the backend-frontend solution of Xen (maybe with
> some fixes) when using VT-x processors ? wouldn't it be much better
> in terms of performance than using hardware emulation (based on QEMU
> maybe)?      
> 
> Regards,
>       --MR
> 
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