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

[Avi Kivity]

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.

--
Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/