Re: [Xen-devel] VIRTIO - compatibility with different virtualization solutions

[Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 20 Feb 2014, Rusty Russell wrote:
> It's a fundamental assumption of virtio that the host can access all of
> guest memory.

I take that by "host" you mean the virtio backends in this context.

Do you think that this fundamental assumption should be sustained going
forward?

I am asking because Xen assumes that the backends are only allowed to
access the memory that the guest decides to share with them.

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