On Tue, Nov 01, 2011 at 09:39:49AM -0400, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> > So SVM does not guarantee that an intercept during a task-switch can be
> > restarted.
>
> Not a bug but still a deficit as it makes hardware-assisted task
> switching practically useless, no?
Not entirely. For hypervisors that can guarantee that there will be no
intercept (NPT pre-mapped, no exceptions intercepted) it will still
work.
Joerg
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