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SubjectRe: Paravirtualization on VMware's Platform [VMI].
On 09/20/09 02:00, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 09/20/2009 10:52 AM, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>> On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 09:42:47 +0200
>> Ingo Molnar<mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> If we were able to rip out all (or most) of paravirt from arch/x86 it
>>> would be tempting for other technical reasons - but the patch above
>>> is well localized.
>>>
>> interesting question is if this would allow us to remove a few of the
>> paravirt hooks....
>>
>
> kvm will be removing the pvmmu support soon; and Xen is talking about
> running paravirtualized guests in a vmx/svm container where they don't
> need most of the hooks.
>

We have no plans to drop support for non-vmx/svm capable processors, let
alone require ept/npt.

J


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