Re: [RFC, PATCH 1/24] i386 Vmi documentation II

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Wed Mar 22 2006 - 18:08:42 EST


On Wednesday 22 March 2006 23:45, Zachary Amsden wrote:

> I propose an entirely different approach - use segmentation.

That would require a lot of changes to save/restore the segmentation
register at kernel entry/exit since there is no swapgs on i386.
And will be likely slower there too and also even slow down the
VMI-kernel-no-hypervisor.

Still might be the best option.

How did that rumoured Xenolinux-over-VMI implementation solve that problem?

-Andi
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