Re: [kvm-devel] user-allocated memory

2007-08-14 Thread Avi Kivity
Carsten Otte wrote: > Avi Kivity wrote: >> kvm only tracks dirty bits if requested by userspace (for live >> migration). Checking the pte is not so easy because the pte contains >> only host addresses, not page addresses (well, we could consult the >> guest page table, but...). > As far as I un

Re: [kvm-devel] user-allocated memory

2007-08-14 Thread Carsten Otte
Avi Kivity wrote: > kvm only tracks dirty bits if requested by userspace (for live > migration). Checking the pte is not so easy because the pte contains > only host addresses, not page addresses (well, we could consult the > guest page table, but...). As far as I undstand this code, this funct

Re: [kvm-devel] user-allocated memory

2007-08-14 Thread Avi Kivity
Carsten Otte wrote: > Izik Eidus wrote: > >> we are working on swapping support for the guests in kvm. >> we want to allow management of the memory swapping of the guests from kvm. >> > This is excellent, thank you! > > >> this is request for comment, so any idea you have please write to