From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Anthony PERARD Subject: Re: Xen 4.3 development update CODE FREEZE HAS_BEGUN Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 16:34:47 +0100 Message-ID: <516D6F97.3050401@citrix.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: George Dunlap Cc: Paul Durrant , Ian Jackson , Ian Campbell , "xen-devel@lists.xen.org" List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On 16/04/13 16:16, George Dunlap wrote: > On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 1:22 PM, George Dunlap > wrote: > >> * Default to QEMU upstream >> > Add "intel-hda" to xmexample file, since it works with 64-bit Win7/8 >> - qemu-based stubdom (Linux or BSD libc) >> owner: anthony@citrix >> status: in progress >> prognosis: ? >> qemu-upstream needs a more fully-featured libc than exists in >> mini-os. Either work on a minimalist linux-based stubdom with >> glibc, or port one of the BSD libcs to minios. > > Anthony, what's the status on this? I'm close to send patches for it, and it should be sent before the end of this week. But it will be more of a tech preview I suppose, as I did not try to have the vga working, yet. > At the moment we default to qemu-upstream if the DM is running in > dom0, and to qemu-traditional if we're running in a stubdom. What > that means is that if someone installs the "normal" way, and then > decides to upgrade to qemu stub domains, then their qemu version will > downgrade. > > Just as a data point: I installed Windows XP on qemu-upstream, and > then switched to qemu-default. XP booted, but a bunch of the devices, > including the VGA and the ethernet, changed and wanted new driver > installed. But it didn't have an ethernet driver, so it couldn't > download the drivers from the web. (Presumably if it had had PV tools > installed it wouldn't have been an issue.) > > So not terrible, but not great: I would still really like to get this > in if we can. > > Thoughts? -- Anthony PERARD