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Glauber Costa wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 3:43 PM, Stefano Stabellini
> <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com> wrote:
>> Can we try to avoid any if (kvm_enabled()) in the vga code and use some
>> kind of more generic hook instead?
>> Xen has some very similar changes to the vga code, it would be nice to
>> merge them as well.
> 
> Yes, we could. But then we'd need to have qemu to view memory as slots.
> It's worthy, but long term.
> 
> By the way, posting those xen changes would be awesome.
> If we both can avoid using hv-specific hooks (which I did: there's
> only one left), and
> so do you, I'm sure we can come up with something very nice in the end
> of the day.

I totally agree.
Posting those patches has been on my TODO list for quite some time, I
think that now is the time to increase the priority :)
I'll keep you posted.