Re: Paravirtualization on VMware's Platform [VMI].

Avi Kivity
2009-09-20T19:02:44Z

On 09/20/2009 06:49 PM, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>> kvm will be removing the pvmmu support soon; and Xen is talking about
>> running paravirtualized guests in a vmx/svm container where they don't
>> need most of the hooks.
>>
>>
> We have no plans to drop support for non-vmx/svm capable processors, let
> alone require ept/npt.
>

Today, certainly; similarly kvm will host-side pvmmu support for a while
to support live migration from older hosts.

But in a few years it may make sense to run everything in a vmx/svm
container even for Xen; we can then drop x86 pv_ops for good.

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