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Re: [Xen-devel] terminology of nestedhvm

At 07:55 +0100 on 14 Sep (1284450943), Dong, Eddie wrote:
> > I like "nested HVM"; it describes exactly what the feature does.
> > 
> Mmm, I may be bias since to me VM is same with HVM.

Me too, mostly. :)  But historically Xen has been the other way around.
VMs are VMs but some of them need hardware support, and it's that
hardware support that's getting nested.  Everything else in the hvm code
is labelled as such, so we should call this feature nested hvm too.

Cheers,

Tim.

-- 
Tim Deegan <Tim.Deegan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Principal Software Engineer, XenServer Engineering
Citrix Systems UK Ltd.  (Company #02937203, SL9 0BG)

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