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Re: [Xen-devel] Question about implementation of 32-bit guests on64-bit

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Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Question about implementation of 32-bit guests on64-bit hypervisor (IDT-related)
From: Mark Williamson <mark.williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 16:52:08 +0000
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> > > guests on top of the 64-bit hypervisor?
> >
> > 32-bit PV guests are restricted to using the low 128GB of physical
> > memory.
> > There's not even that restriction for 32-bit HVM guests.
>
> We could even use shadow translate mode to get around the 128GB
> restriction, though at some performance cost. I guess you'd switch the
> guest to shadow mode if you've run out of memory below 128GB.

That's not possible right now, though, right?  Shadowing PV guests was still 
broken IIRC?

Cheers,
Mark


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