Ian Jackson wrote:
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> Avi Kivity writes ("[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 2 of 5] add can_dma/post_dma for direct IO"):
>   
>> Newer Xen shouldn't have this problem though; it runs qemu in kernel 
>> mode in a dedicated 64-bit domain.
>>     
>
> I think there is continued value in being able to emulate a guest
> whose physical address space exceeds the virtual address space in the
> host.  The whole assumption that all guest accessible RAM is mapped at
> once, contiguously, is I think wrong.
>   

I agree that we shouldn't expect memory to be contiguous, in order to 
properly support hotplug.  But I see zero value in trying to support 
large memory configurations on 32-bit in 2008.  This is what 64-bit 
systems are for!  If Xen has a problem with 64-bit hosts, we can try to 
accommodate it, but to have 32-bit qemu/tcg or qemu/kvm support large 
address spaces is pointless IMO.

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