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

[Rusty Russell]

On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 06:30:21 pm Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 09/20/2009 10:52 AM, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 09:42:47 +0200
> > Ingo Molnar<mingo@xxxxxxx>  wrote:
> >
> >    
> >> If we were able to rip out all (or most) of paravirt from arch/x86 it
> >> would be tempting for other technical reasons - but the patch above
> >> is well localized.
> >>      
> > interesting question is if this would allow us to remove a few of the
> > paravirt hooks....
> >    
> 
> 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.

When they're all gone, even I don't think lguest is sufficient excuse
to keep CONFIG_PARAVIRT.  Oh well.  But that will probably be a while.

Cheers,
Rusty.
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