Viridian- realized as device driver
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sabato 9 giugno 2007 09:47
I have heard that the hypervisor itself is realized as device driver.
Is this right and can you say something about this?
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giovedì 14 giugno 2007 17:33Can you clarify the question please. Is the question whether WSv is a device driver?
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venerdì 15 giugno 2007 15:43Moderatore
The hypervisor is an architecturally separate layer of the system. You can find a good architectural diagram in the WinHEC deck, “Hypervisor, Virtualization Stack, and Device Virtualization Architectures”
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/winhec/pres06.mspx
In Viridian v1, we load the Hv as part of the system boot from an early-load device driver, but it is not executed like a device driver and the Hv runs in its own context below all partitions.
-Mike
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