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On Tue, Nov 01, 2011 at 02:22:56PM -0400, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> On 2011-11-01 17:15, Roedel, Joerg wrote:
> > No, also a hypervisor that creates the nested page-page on advance falls
> > into this category.
> 
> Doesn't this means all guest memory has to be backed with host memory?
> That's what I meant with "static".

Yes, but isn't Xen working this way? I wouldn't call Xen a simple
partitioning hypervisor :)


	Joerg

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