Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 20 Sep 2009 08:49:16 -0700 | From | Jeremy Fitzhardinge <> | Subject | Re: Paravirtualization on VMware's Platform [VMI]. |
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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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