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Subject: Zero-copy block driver?
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2011 04:55:23 +0100
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Hi everyone,

Could you please tell me if it is possible to use a block driver that 
completely avoids the guest kernel and copies block data directly 
to/from the given buffer in the guest userspace?
If yes, how to activate it? If not... why not? :)

Thanks!
Darko