Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/10] xen: pv domain support.

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge]

Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> Hmm.  I suspect xen's direct paging mode makes that quite intrusive as
> the kvm mmu code would have to know about this extra p2m translation
> step to get the shadow/ept/ntp tables right.  Given that this most
> likely would be a odd and rarely tested use case I don't think this
> would be a good idea ...
>   

That's mostly encapsulated in the normal pagetable manipulation 
routines, so if kvm can be convinced to use those to manage its shadow 
tables, it will all Just Work.  That doesn't work well with a non-PAE 
32-bit host with kvm's PAE shadow pagetables, but Xen doesn't support 
non-PAE anyway.

   J