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Re: [Xen-devel] PV guest + shadow paging

To: Tim Deegan <Tim.Deegan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] PV guest + shadow paging
From: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:01:13 +0100
Cc: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Ian Pratt <Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Levin Johnson <levin.johnson@xxxxxxxxx>, xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Hi,

Tim Deegan, le Mon 22 Oct 2007 12:20:48 +0100, a écrit :
> At 19:01 +0800 on 22 Oct (1193079674), tgh wrote:
> > what is the auto_translated_physmap ?
> 
> A shadow pagetable mode where Xen does the translation between
> guest-physical and machine-physical addresses for PV guests.  Normally
> PV guests do that translation themselves, because it's faster, and Xen
> does it for HVM guests because they can't do it themseves.

It can be useful too for PV guests that don't (want to) support PAE.

Samuel

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