Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] Refactor hypercall infrastructure

From: Anthony Liguori
Date: Fri Sep 14 2007 - 18:08:38 EST


Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
Anthony Liguori wrote:
Yeah, see, the initial goal was to make it possible to use the KVM
paravirtualizations on other hypervisors. However, I don't think this
is really going to be possible in general so maybe it's better to just
use leaf 0. I'll let others chime in before sending a new patch.

Hm. Obviously you can just define a signature for "kvm-compatible
hypercall interface" and make it common that way, but it gets tricky if
the hypervisor supports multiple hypercall interfaces, including the kvm
one. Start the kvm leaves at 0x40001000 or something?

Yeah, that works with me.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

J


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