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Andi Kleen wrote:
> Not if the patching happens early enough at boot. That's true for Xen
> and lguest, but I'm not sure about VMI

paravirt_ops patching happens at the same time as all other patching, 
via check_bugs().  So its the same regardless of backend, and quite late.

    J