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From: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH  -v2] Monitor command: pfa2hva, translate guest physical
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On 11/01/2010 02:20 PM, Huang Ying wrote:
> Yes. As general interface, it may not work so well, but as test
> interface, it works quite well and useful.
>
> Do we have any mechanism to add a test only interface?
>    

I'd like to see what Luiz/Markus think but definitely only a human 
monitor interface and probably prefix the command with a 'x-' prefix to 
indicate that it's not a supported interface.

The documentation should be very clear about the limitations of the 
interface and the intended use-case.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Best Regards,
> Huang Ying
>
>
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