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Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC 00/39] x86/KVM: Xen HVM guest support
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From:   Ankur Arora <ankur.a.arora@oracle.com>
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On 2/20/19 3:39 PM, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 08:15:30PM +0000, Joao Martins wrote:
>>   2. PV Driver support (patches 17 - 39)
>>
>>   We start by redirecting hypercalls from the backend to routines
>>   which emulate the behaviour that PV backends expect i.e. grant
>>   table and interdomain events. Next, we add support for late
>>   initialization of xenbus, followed by implementing
>>   frontend/backend communication mechanisms (i.e. grant tables and
>>   interdomain event channels). Finally, introduce xen-shim.ko,
>>   which will setup a limited Xen environment. This uses the added
>>   functionality of Xen specific shared memory (grant tables) and
>>   notifications (event channels).
> 
> Does it mean backends could be run in another guest, similarly as on
> real Xen? AFAIK virtio doesn't allow that as virtio backends need
I'm afraid not. For now grant operations (map/unmap) can only be done
by backends to the local KVM instance.

Ankur

> arbitrary write access to guest memory. But grant tables provide enough
> abstraction to do that safely.

>