Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> Avi Kivity wrote:
>   
>> We've now switched to allocating guest memory in userspace rather than
>> in the kernel.
>>     
>
> Hmm, a quick glimpse over kvmctl.h doesn't show an obvious way how to
> use that.  If I want to back vm memory with a file mapping, how can I do
> that?
>   

kvmctl.h doesn't expose an API for that currently, though is should be
fairly trivial to do so.  The kernel API is straightforward: take this
bunch of memory and present it to a guest at some address.  The kernel
doesn't care if the memory came from a file mmap() or some other source.


-- 
Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to 
panic.


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