10000 feet-view comparison of traditional and nested paging

Traditional pagingIntel nested pagingAMD nested paging
Translation forVA -> PA (or GPA)GPA -> PAGPA -> PA
Typically owned and handled byOS (or guest OS)HypervisorHypervisor
Pointer to the PML4CR3EPT pointernCR3
Translation failure#PFEPT violation VM-exit#VMEXIT(NPF)
Paging structures compared with traditional ones(N/A)SimilarIdentical
Bit[11:0] of a paging structure entry isFlagsFlagsFlags
Bit[N:12] of a paging structure entry containsPage framePage framePage frame
Levels of tables for 4KB translation444