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On Mon, 24 Jul 2006, Rik van Riel wrote:

> > I think there may be a way with less changes to the way the VM functions to
> > get there:
> 
> That approach probably has way too many state changes going
> between the guest OS and the hypervisor...

An increment of a VM counter causes a state change in the hypervisor?