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From: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: RFC on deprivileged x86 hypervisor device models
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2015 11:29:14 +0100
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On 17/07/15 11:27, Fabio Fantoni wrote:
> Il 17/07/2015 12:09, Ben Catterall ha scritto:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm working on an x86 proof-of-concept series to evaluate if it is
>> feasible to move device models currently running in the hypervisor
>> and x86 emulation code for HVM guests into a deprivileged context.
>>
>> I've put together the following document as I have been considering
>> several different ways this could be achieved and was hoping to get
>> feedback from maintainers before I go ahead.
>
> Have you already take a look to this patch serie?
> http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2015-07/msg00108.html
>

Running qemu as non-root has nothing to do whatsoever with this proposal.

This proposal concerns the bits which are emulated *in the hypervisor*.

~Andrew