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RE: [Xen-devel] Guest OS without paging


  • To: "Ivan Kelly" <ivan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • From: "Kamble, Nitin A" <nitin.a.kamble@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 11:48:57 -0800
  • Delivery-date: Mon, 07 Nov 2005 19:49:13 +0000
  • List-id: Xen developer discussion <xen-devel.lists.xensource.com>
  • Thread-index: AcXjL1rP/E8ukul1TPqPbPwXPP/JIgApKAZw
  • Thread-topic: [Xen-devel] Guest OS without paging

If you have A box with VT cpus, then you can try the unmodified (vmx)
guest. Eg the old DOS can boot on top of it. It is also used to boot
windows guests on top of Xen.  With vmxloader guest thinks that it is in
real mode but actually it is running in the vm86 mode.

Thanks & Regards,
Nitin
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Open Source Technology Center, Intel Corp

>-----Original Message-----
>From: xen-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:xen-devel-
>bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ivan Kelly
>Sent: Sunday, November 06, 2005 4:12 PM
>To: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [Xen-devel] Guest OS without paging
>
>Hi,
>Is it possible to have xen run a guest OS that doesn't use paging. Can
I
>present just a continuous block of memory, that just represents the
real
>memory available to the domain, to the guest, and not the expanded
amount
>that
>paging would allow, so that in the guest I dont have to worry about
>maintaining a page table and such.
>Best regards
>Ivan Kelly
>
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