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From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: ibmveth: Harden driver initilisation for kexec
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2006 12:00:54 +1100
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Randy.Dunlap writes:

> E.g., could the hypervisor know when one of it's virtual OSes
> dies or reboots and release its resources then?

I think the point is that with kexec, the same virtual machine keeps
running, so the hypervisor doesn't see the OS dying or rebooting.

Paul.