Re: [PATCH v3] Add vendor_device parameter for HVM guests

[Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>]

On Fri, Aug 02, Paul Durrant wrote:

> The parameter determines which, if any, xen-pvdevice is specified on the
> QEMU command line. The default value is 'none' which means no argument will
> be passed. A value of 'xenserver' specifies a xen-pvdevice with device-id
> 0xc000 (the initial value in the xenserver namespace - see
> docs/misc/pci-device-reservations.txt).

> diff --git a/docs/man/xl.cfg.pod.5 b/docs/man/xl.cfg.pod.5
> index 069b73f..08d6cc4 100644
> --- a/docs/man/xl.cfg.pod.5
> +++ b/docs/man/xl.cfg.pod.5
> @@ -1176,6 +1176,29 @@ documentation.
>  
>  =back
>  
> +=item B<vendor_device="VENDOR_DEVICE">
> +
> +Selects which variant of the QEMU xen-pvdevice should be used for this
> +guest. Valid values are:
> +
> +=over 4
> +
> +=item B<none>
> +
> +The xen-pvdevice should be omitted. This is the default.
> +
> +=item B<xenserver>
> +
> +The xenserver variant of the xen-pvdevice (device-id=C000) will be
> +specified, enabling the use of XenServer PV drivers in the guest.
> +
> +=back
> +
> +This parameter only takes effect when device_model_version=qemu-xen.
> +See F<docs/misc/pci-device-reservations.txt> for more information.
> +
> +=back
> +
>  =head2 Device-Model Options
>  
>  The following options control the selection of the device-model.  This

This change causes an error:

 man/xl.cfg.pod.5 around line 1179: '=item' outside of any '=over'
 POD document had syntax errors at /usr/bin/pod2text line 84.
 make[2]: *** [txt/man/xl.cfg.5.txt] Error 255

Olaf