>I don't think there should be any default relationship between guest
>physical page numbers and host physical page numbers. The monitor
>uses an array of pages allocated from the host, which the host won't
>use for anything (of course). Those pages will serve as guest physical
>pages (in whatever sequence we choose).
That's what I tryed to express.
>We can't use any different 'levels'; replacing the hardware segmentation
>and paging features by *any* software solution would be *much* too
>expensive.
I sayed nothing about software solutions. Of course we do use the hardware.
You gave a second explonation for the graphic. ;)
I gave no new ideas, I just wanted to add a little picture and some words
to our doc pool...
jens