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From: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Questioning the Xen Design of the VMM
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 14:22:25 -0400
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To: "Petersson, Mats" <Mats.Petersson@amd.com>
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Mat, thanks for the reply

Petersson, Mats wrote:
> 
> 
> Hidden parts of segment registers is one of the "security features" of
> the 286 architecture, but it also creates some pretty interesting
> scenarios for us programmers... 

The missing part in my mind was that I didn't know that the segment 
registers can't be completely read.  A colleague of mine told me a 
little more about them.  Yuck!

Thanks for the nice write ups though.

-- Steve