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Re: [Xen-devel] sharing memory between unprivileged guests

To: Kip Macy <kip.macy@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] sharing memory between unprivileged guests
From: Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 09:17:19 +0100
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On 27 Apr 2005, at 03:56, Kip Macy wrote:

Is there any way for unprivileged guests to map each others memory
without grant tables? Now that the pressure is off for me to support
SMP internally, I'd like to switch back to using -testing.

Currently not. We'd like to support more general and wide-scale sharing of pages than grant tables were designed to support (for shared buffer cache and lightweight VM cloning, for example), but that isn't implemented yet and certainly won't appear in the 2.0 series.

 -- Keir


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