From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC, PATCH 1/24] i386 Vmi documentation II
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 23:38:42 +0100
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On Wednesday 22 March 2006 23:45, Zachary Amsden wrote:

> I propose an entirely different approach - use segmentation. 

That would require a lot of changes to save/restore the segmentation
register at kernel entry/exit since there is no swapgs on i386. 
And will be likely slower there too and also even slow down the 
VMI-kernel-no-hypervisor.

Still might be the best option.

How did that rumoured Xenolinux-over-VMI implementation solve that problem?

-Andi
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