From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757705Ab0EDXhl (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 May 2010 19:37:41 -0400 Received: from claw.goop.org ([74.207.240.146]:41821 "EHLO claw.goop.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754265Ab0EDXhk (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 May 2010 19:37:40 -0400 Message-ID: <4BE0AFC2.2090207@goop.org> Date: Tue, 04 May 2010 16:37:38 -0700 From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100430 Fedora/3.0.4-2.fc12 Lightning/1.0b2pre Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pavel Machek CC: Jeremy Fitzhardinge , akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.osdl.org, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, Zachary Amsden , Chris Wright Subject: Re: [patch 7/8] Add a bootparameter to reserve high linear address space. References: <20060803002510.634721860@xensource.com> <20060803002518.595166293@xensource.com> <19700101001522.GA3999@ucw.cz> In-Reply-To: <19700101001522.GA3999@ucw.cz> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 12/31/1969 04:15 PM, Pavel Machek wrote: > Dynamically loaded hypervisor? Do we really want to support that? > (Missed this because your datestamp was 1969...) The idea was that you could boot a guest under VMWare fully virtualized then switch it to a VMI guest by loading a module. I don't think it ever worked out - the transition was too trick to get right (especially applying all the pvops patching to a live system). J