From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>,
xen-devel@lists.xensource.com,
Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>,
virtualization@lists.osdl.org
Subject: Re: [patch 7/8] Add a bootparameter to reserve high linear address space.
Date: Tue, 04 May 2010 16:37:38 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BE0AFC2.2090207@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19700101001522.GA3999@ucw.cz>
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
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2006-08-05 21:58 ` [patch 7/8] Add a bootparameter to reserve high linear address space Andrew Morton
2006-08-05 22:52 ` Zachary Amsden
2006-08-05 23:17 ` Rusty Russell
2006-08-06 22:00 ` Pavel Machek
2006-08-06 22:02 ` Pavel Machek
[not found] ` <19700101001522.GA3999@ucw.cz>
2006-08-07 2:10 ` Andi Kleen
2010-05-04 23:37 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]
2006-08-07 9:12 ` Pavel Machek
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