On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 07:17:30PM +0900, Jun Koi wrote: > 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. > That's not the guest who should load the page. From guest's point of view the page is in memory. > Is that a reasonable solution? > > Thanks, > J -- 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
