Re: [Xen-devel] Future support of 5-level paging in Xen:wq

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> > So basically you are telling us that due to nested virt on AWS we will
> > never be able to drop PV support, right?
> 
> That's right, although never say never :-)

Unless cloud provides exposes VMX to the guests (nested virtualization).

> 
> 
> > Why are we pushing PVH then?
> 
> Because it is significantly faster than PV on most workloads on real
> hardware, while retaining the security properties of PV. Definitely a
> vital option to have on platforms that have VMX or SVM.

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