Ian Jackson wrote:
Avi Kivity writes ("[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 2 of 5] add can_dma/post_dma for direct
IO"):
Newer Xen shouldn't have this problem though; it runs qemu in kernel
mode in a dedicated 64-bit domain.
I think there is continued value in being able to emulate a guest
whose physical address space exceeds the virtual address space in the
host. The whole assumption that all guest accessible RAM is mapped at
once, contiguously, is I think wrong.
I agree that we shouldn't expect memory to be contiguous, in order to
properly support hotplug. But I see zero value in trying to support
large memory configurations on 32-bit in 2008. This is what 64-bit
systems are for! If Xen has a problem with 64-bit hosts, we can try to
accommodate it, but to have 32-bit qemu/tcg or qemu/kvm support large
address spaces is pointless IMO.
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