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Hypervisors must virtualize physical memory, so that each virtual machine has the illusion of managing its own contiguous region of physical memory. Recall the definitions of §1.6: each virtual machine is provided the abstraction of guest-physicalmemory, while the hypervisor manages host-physical memory, the actual underlying physical resource.
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Bugnion, E., Nieh, J., Tsafrir, D. (2017). x86-64: MMU Virtualization with Extended Page Tables. In: Hardware and Software Support for Virtualization. Synthesis Lectures on Computer Architecture. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-01753-7_5
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