Re: [Xen-devel] VMX Assist and x86 segment registers

[Khoa Huynh <khoa@xxxxxxxxxx>]

aliguori@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 05/31/2006 10:07:08 AM:

> Big real mode is definitely a problem in vm86 mode.  FreeBSD is also
> notorious for its use of segmentation :-)  I think it has been proposed
> that a potential solution is to do away with vmxassist entirely and
> instead use qemu to emulate 16 bit mode (or another emulator if
> available).  Not sure if anyone is actually working on that yet though.
> It seems to be the most promising solution.

Yes, we are thinking of putting a full instruction emulator into
qemu-dm and emulating 16-bit stuff in qemu-dm instead of using
vmxassist (vmxassist will go away).  Leendert van Doorn and I are
working on this.  Thanks.

Regards,
Khoa


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