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Re: [Xen-devel] Questioning the Xen Design of the VMM

To: "Petersson, Mats" <Mats.Petersson@xxxxxxx>
From: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 14:22:25 -0400
Cc: Al Boldi <a1426z@xxxxxxxxx>, xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Delivery-date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 11:22:25 -0700
List-id: Xen developer discussion <xen-devel.lists.xensource.com>

Mat, thanks for the reply

Petersson, Mats wrote:



Hidden parts of segment registers is one of the "security features" of
the 286 architecture, but it also creates some pretty interesting

scenarios for us programmers...

The missing part in my mind was that I didn't know that the segmentregisters can't be completely read. A colleague of mine told me alittle more about them. Yuck!


Thanks for the nice write ups though.

-- Steve


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