[Lguest] Lguest modification.

[Sujit Sanjeev]

Alright! I can work with the guest-> host hypercall communication then!

Thanks a lot for all the info!
Cheers!
Sujit


On 10/25/07, Glauber de Oliveira Costa <glommer at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 10/25/07, Sujit Sanjeev <sujit771 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Can the same be done with another level of indirection? i.e. if I want
> > something to be inaccessible to the host itself,
> > can I store the values in the address space of the hypervisor? and make
> the
> > host make special calls
> > to the hypervisor? I am assuming that the host cannot alter the data
> stored
> > in the address space of the hypervisor.
>
> There is no such thing as the "hypervisor" as a separate entity in
> lguest, at least not as I understand it (semantic issues may rise!
> ;-))
>
> That's because a lot of the tasks are done by the host itself.
> See things in drivers/lguest/core.c, for an example. All of this, are
> in the host. interrupt management, userspace communication,
> everything.
>
> The closest thing you'll get to a hypervisor here is the switcher. But
> there's not too many things happening here regarding what you'd want.
>
> --
> Glauber de Oliveira Costa.
> "Free as in Freedom"
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>
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>
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