On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 1:04 AM, Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 01/05/2010 05:05 PM, Jun Koi wrote: >> >> Is it true that to make this work, we will need a (PV) kernel driver >> for each guest OS (Windows, Linux, ...)? >> >> > > It's partially usable even without guest modifications; while servicing a > host page fault we can still deliver interrupts to the guest (which might > cause a context switch and thus further progress to be made). Lets say, in the case the guest has no PV driver. When we find that a guest page is swapped out, we can send a pagefault to the guest to trick it to load that page in. And we dont need the driver at all. Is that a reasonable solution? Thanks, J -- 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
