On 2011-11-01 17:15, Roedel, Joerg wrote: > On Tue, Nov 01, 2011 at 11:49:42AM -0400, Jan Kiszka wrote: >> On 2011-11-01 16:30, Roedel, Joerg wrote: >>> On Tue, Nov 01, 2011 at 09:39:49AM -0400, Jan Kiszka wrote: >>>>> So SVM does not guarantee that an intercept during a task-switch can be >>>>> restarted. >>>> >>>> Not a bug but still a deficit as it makes hardware-assisted task >>>> switching practically useless, no? >>> >>> Not entirely. For hypervisors that can guarantee that there will be no >>> intercept (NPT pre-mapped, no exceptions intercepted) it will still >>> work. >> >> Yes, but that only covers the niche of simple static ones (partitioning >> hypervisors). > > No, also a hypervisor that creates the nested page-page on advance falls > into this category. Doesn't this means all guest memory has to be backed with host memory? That's what I meant with "static". Jan
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