From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com>, kvm list <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: KVM x86 emulator design question
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2015 19:08:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5533E127.2050103@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <22C21C26-0572-4868-8C48-DF602DF360AD@gmail.com>
On 19/04/2015 15:16, Nadav Amit wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would appreciate if someone briefly explains the design choice that leaded
> to separating the x86 emulator from the rest of x86 code, i.e., making it
> oblivious to VCPUs and using the x86_emulate_ops as an interface.
I think the reason was to make it as easy as possible to use it in
usermode code, for example to write unit tests for it.
Paolo
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2015-04-19 13:16 KVM x86 emulator design question Nadav Amit
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