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RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] Time for hybrid virtualization?

To: "Alex Williamson" <alex.williamson@xxxxxx>, "Tristan Gingold" <tgingold@xxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] Time for hybrid virtualization?
From: "Xu, Anthony" <anthony.xu@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 10:06:01 +0800
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Alex Williamson wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 07:24 +0100, Tristan Gingold wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> one more point: in the very early time, Xen/ia64 was able to run an
>> unmodified linux kernel as dom0.  It was simply privified (either
>> during installation or at loading time).  Most of the code is still
>> here. 
>> 
>> So we have a possible backup for non-VT processor.
> 
> Hi Tristan,
> 
>   Good point, Peter Chubb has had some pretty good results from his
> "after burning" techniques iirc.  Thanks,

So, the first step is to run dom0 on VT mode,
Then run dom0( with little intrusson)  on non-VT processor.



- Anthony

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