Xen in Virtual Machine?

[Julian Stecklina]

Kip Macy <kmacy at freebsd.org> writes:

> On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Julian Stecklina <js at alien8.de> wrote:
>> Kip Macy <kmacy at freebsd.org> writes:
>>
>> I'll try VMWare. Thanks for the advice. I am still puzzled why Xen
>> presents such a problem for hardware-virtualization based VMMs. Maybe
>> the virtualization guys at our university can clear that up...
>>
>
> 32-bit Xen uses segments in an unusual way. They may not be
> implementing emulation support for this correctly.

Do you mean using additional protection rings? Yes, no one does that
except Xen. 

Regards,
-- 
Julian Stecklina

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