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For CPU bound work loads, pretty low, but not low enough that it's free (~5%).

For devices (especially latency sensitive workloads), it's quite bad. Device accesses have to be bounce-buffered. You can't do anything vaguely zero copy, since the device can't DMA to or from the VM. Future hardware support will mitigate that (mutually attested VM/Device interactions), but no real world devices support it yet.

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