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On Tue, 6 Oct 2015, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
> Do KVM guests also need such extensive set of modifications in order to
> run using 64KB pages? I know it's not fair to compare KVM and Xen in
> this regard, because the interfaces are very different, but that's what
> developers are going to look at.

QEMU doesn't need extensive modifications to run 64K guests on a 4K
host, but on the other hand KVM needs its own set of non-trivial
modifications to do it.
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On Tue, 6 Oct 2015, Roger Pau Monn? wrote:
> Do KVM guests also need such extensive set of modifications in order to
> run using 64KB pages? I know it's not fair to compare KVM and Xen in
> this regard, because the interfaces are very different, but that's what
> developers are going to look at.

QEMU doesn't need extensive modifications to run 64K guests on a 4K
host, but on the other hand KVM needs its own set of non-trivial
modifications to do it.