Re: [Xen-devel] Xen Use of Vanderpool technology

[Dave Feustel <dfeustel@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 31 January 2005 03:23 am, Ian Pratt wrote:
> > On Sunday 30 January 2005 07:22 am, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:
> > > AFAIK, Xen will be able to support Windows only on 
> > Vanderpool-enabled 
> > > CPUs.
> > 
> > How will Vanderpool support page table management without changing any
> > os code?
> 
> VT-x enables the hypervisor and guest operating system to use different
> page tables and switches between them on entering/leaving the Xen.
> 
> Xen's maintains shadow page tables on behalf of the guestOS, reading and
> translating the guest's table entries into the shadow tables on demand. 
> 
> Ian

Thanks.  I've been waiting for the virtualization capability of VT for a long 
time.

Dave


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