On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 01:11:40PM +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote: > That raise a question for a kvm-mmu newbie like me: > > If a page of the qemu process gets pushed around (here likely due to > fork()->exec(smbd)->COW), how will kvm's shadow table catch up? Via > MMU_NOTIFIER? > > I'm on a 2.6.25 kernel, and that means without CONFIG_MMU_NOTIFIER. So > far I assumed that kernels without this feature do not work optimally, > but they won't break my guests... > Guest memory is not COWed on fork (madvise(MADV_DONTFORK)) -- Gleb. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
