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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Subject: Re: PV guest + shadow paging
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 21:32:43 -0700
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Tim Deegan wrote:
> A shadow pagetable mode where Xen does the translation between
> guest-physical and machine-physical addresses for PV guests.  Normally
> PV guests do that translation themselves, because it's faster, and Xen
> does it for HVM guests because they can't do it themseves.
>   

I think we'll need it to take advantage of NPT/EPT though, right?

    J