Re: A few KVM security questions

[Joanna Rutkowska <joanna@invisiblethingslab.com>]

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Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 12/07/2009 03:30 PM, Joanna Rutkowska wrote:
>> Avi Kivity wrote:
>>
>>   
>>>> 1) Do you have any support for para-virtualized VMs?
>>>>        
>>> Yes, for example, we support paravirtualized timers and mmu for Linux.
>>> These are fairly minimal compared to Xen's pv domains.
>>>
>>>      
>> Can I run a regular Linux as PV-guest? Specifically, can I get rid of
>> qemu totally, assuming I have only PV guests?
>>
>>    
> 
> No.  Paravirtualization just augments the standard hardware interface,
> it doesn't replace it as in Xen.
> 

Can you point to a document/source file that would list all the possible
interfaces between VM and the host? I.e. all the VMX handlers, and all
the hypercalls (PV interfaces).

joanna.


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