Re: xen.git branch reorg

[William Pitcock <nenolod@dereferenced.org>]

I think you are talking about HVM PV drivers. HVM itself is no different
than booting a paravirtualized guest as far as the dom0 kernel is
concerned... the only difference is the running qemu-dm process or stub
domain.

William

On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 02:14 -0700, Boris Derzhavets wrote:
> >I could pull a spare server out of the production 
> >grid for testing HVM under 2.6.30 if needed.
> 
> As far as to my knowledge Xen 3.4-rc3-pre Dom0 & (2.6.30-rc3-tip)
> support only PV DomUs. HVM is still unsolved problem.
> If i am wrong about that, please advise.
> 
> Boris.
> 
> 
> --- On Tue, 4/28/09, William Pitcock <nenolod@dereferenced.org> wrote:
>         From: William Pitcock <nenolod@dereferenced.org>
>         Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] xen.git branch reorg
>         To: "Jeremy Fitzhardinge" <jeremy@goop.org>
>         Cc: "Xen-devel" <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
>         Date: Tuesday, April 28, 2009, 3:13 AM
>         
>         On Mon, 2009-04-27 at 16:48 -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>         > William Pitcock
>          wrote:
>         > > Yeah, it's working here now. Thanks for that.
>         > >
>         > > We intend to start testing the 3.4 release candidate with 2.6.30
>         > > paravirt-ops dom0 in our test environment this weekend.
>         > >   
>         > 
>         > OK, that'll be interesting.  What's your test environment?
>         
>         Paravirtualization-only nocona-based (early EM64T) Xeon hardware, with
>         nodes comprising of dual 2.8ghz CPUs with 8GB of memory, on Debian
>         testing.
>         
>         Production is presently at 3.2 with XenLinux 2.6.18 patches rebased
>         against 2.6.26. Production machines are dual opteron 2216 machines with
>         8GB-16GB of RAM, with both HVM and Paravirtualized domains.
>         
>         The test and production grids use the same storage backend, which is
>         presently provided through exporting LVM volumes with AoE and
>         cluster-lvm.
>         
>         I could pull a spare server out of the production grid for testing HVM
>         under 2.6.30 if
>          needed.
>         
>         William
>         
>         
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