From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kevin Wolf Subject: Re: Re: [PATCH] qemu-xen: Fix PV segfault Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:17:25 +0200 Message-ID: <486CB545.2060108@suse.de> References: <4863E1F6.60909@suse.de> <18538.27111.959001.890654@mariner.uk.xensource.com> <486B3428.5000006@suse.de> <486B3E88.1020904@redhat.com> <20080702141917.GD23929@totally.trollied.org.uk> <486C876E.8040504@redhat.com> <486C8AF1.6080804@suse.de> <486CB023.3080605@redhat.com> <486CB262.8070208@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <486CB262.8070208@suse.de> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Gerd Hoffmann Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, Ian Jackson , John Levon List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Kevin Wolf schrieb: > Gerd Hoffmann schrieb: >> Kevin Wolf wrote: >>> Actually, I think Xen PV is a different architecture, not just a >>> different PC machine. >> That isn't visible to qemu though as cpu virtualization is handled by >> the xen hypervisor. >> >>> So to be consistent with qemu it would be a >>> separate binary like qemu-system-xenpv. >> I wouldn't do it that way for the reason outlined above, but it is an >> option, yes. > > It's not only the CPU virtualization I'm talking about. PV machines also > have "hardware" devices completely different from PCs. Just look at > pc_init1(), that's all stuff PV machines won't need. Seems the temperature prevents clear thinking. Forget about the hardware devices, that's exactly what the different machines are for... Kevin