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Re: [Xen-devel] portability issues

To: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] portability issues
From: Keir Fraser <keir@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 10:58:04 +0100
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On 21/6/07 10:53, "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> (1) and (2): I want to kill off use of vcpu_guest_context in dom0 tools,
>> make hvm save/restore a generic state load/save interface, and define
>> extensible structures at that interface (pass a stream of state chunks back
>> and forth at the interface, each chunk having a size in its header, and so
>> increasing the size of a chunk allows it to be naturally appended to and
>> hence extended).
> 
> I wasn't concerned about the tools interface. The real compatibility problem
> is VCPUOP_initialize.

I don't see the problem. The guest will not be able to initialise secondary
VCPU's sysenter/syscall state via this interface. So what?

 -- Keir


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