RE: [Xen-devel] Xen Use of Vanderpool technology

["Ian Pratt" <m+Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> On Sunday 30 January 2005 07:22 am, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:
> > AFAIK, Xen will be able to support Windows only on 
> Vanderpool-enabled 
> > CPUs.
> 
> How will Vanderpool support page table management without changing any
> os code?

VT-x enables the hypervisor and guest operating system to use different
page tables and switches between them on entering/leaving the Xen.

Xen's maintains shadow page tables on behalf of the guestOS, reading and
translating the guest's table entries into the shadow tables on demand. 

Ian


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