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Re: [Xen-devel] shadow_translated pv guests?

To: Tim Deegan <Tim.Deegan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] shadow_translated pv guests?
From: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 17:24:38 +0100
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Tim Deegan wrote:

> At the moment, only the paravirt-ops kernels use translated mode, and
> they don't do explicit MMU operations to update their pagetables. 

The paravirt-ops kernels (built from rusty's patch queue) fail to boot
for me (using a ttylinux ramdisk).  No matter whenever
CONFIG_XEN_SHADOW_MODE is enabled or not.  The shadow kernel dies quite
early at boot.  The non-shadow seems to fail execute init.

Hmm ...

  Gerd

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Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@xxxxxxx>

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