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From: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@suse.de>
Subject: Re: Re: [PATCH] qemu-xen: Fix PV segfault
Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:16:49 +0200
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Gerd Hoffmann schrieb:
> I also want to have the xen bits upstream (pv first as mentioned in the
> previous mail).  And I want to have it as runtime option, not
> compile-time option, so you don't have a separate qemu-dm binary.

Actually, I think Xen PV is a different architecture, not just a
different PC machine. So to be consistent with qemu it would be a
separate binary like qemu-system-xenpv.

HVM on the other hand would be more of an accelerator for the existing
x86 system emulation, just like kqemu or KVM.

Kevin