Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Avi Kivity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Yes. >> >> A read-only memory slot may have other uses too (for ROMs). >> > > a related question: i was wondering about the purpose of the > KVM_MEM_LOG_DIRTY_PAGES feature that is attached to physical memory > slots. Is that used so that you can get a compact bitmap of all modified > pages within a Qemu-emulated framebuffer, resulting in a delta update, > instead of having to do the full framebuffer update every time? >
Yes. A future use is the live migration thing (although we need to update the mmu to mark guest page tables when it sets the dirty and accessed bits for that, or when it emulates an instruction). -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ kvm-devel mailing list kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel
