Re: [Xen-devel] Questioning the Xen Design of the VMM

[Steven Rostedt <srostedt@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Mat, thanks for the reply

Petersson, Mats wrote:
> Hidden parts of segment registers is one of the "security features" of
> the 286 architecture, but it also creates some pretty interesting
> scenarios for us programmers... 
The missing part in my mind was that I didn't know that the segment 
registers can't be completely read.  A colleague of mine told me a 
little more about them.  Yuck!
Thanks for the nice write ups though.

-- Steve


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