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Subject: Re: Paravirtualization on VMware's Platform [VMI].
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On 09/20/2009 10:52 AM, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 09:42:47 +0200
> Ingo Molnar<mingo@elte.hu>  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.

-- 
Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.

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