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Re: progress on xen3 HVM support



On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 03:34:09AM +0200, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> 
> I'm not following Xen as close as I'd like to, and as such your posting 
> raised two questions for me that I was able to google. Maybe you can 
> confirm my understanding:
> 
> 1) HVM = Hardware Virtual Machine, a Common Interface for VT-x/VT-i and
>          AMD SVM CPUs[1]
> 
> 2) Qemu-dm = Qemu[2] Device Model - a modified(?) Qemu that's used to
>              emulate instruction sets for real-mode support[3] - I guess
>              to run Xen inside Xen

Mostly, I think, to run BIOS code for native operating systems inside
Xen HVM domains.  And/or to provide the emulated devices (like VGA
cards) that the BIOS and native code will poke at.

--
Dan.

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