Re: [patch] kvm: make cr3 loading more robust

Ingo Molnar
2007-01-04T09:06:55Z

* Avi Kivity <avi-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org> wrote:

> The guest needs to cooperate, but it can do so using the native memory
> hotlpug mechanisms (whatever they are). [...]

as far a Linux guest goes, there's no such thing at the moment, at least
in the mainline kernel. Most of the difficulties with RAM-unplug is on
the guest OS side - i agree with you that doing it on the host side is
easy. (because the host side does not really 'use' any of the guest's
"RAM".)

Ingo