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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Cc: Sander Eikelenboom <linux@eikelenboom.it>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Anthony Liguori <aliguori@amazon.com>,
	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] pc_piix: enable legacy hotplug for Xen
Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2014 17:47:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <52F26B14.2000807@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1402051635510.4373@kaball.uk.xensource.com>

Il 05/02/2014 17:41, Stefano Stabellini ha scritto:
> > Yeah, especially because nowadays "-M pc" works with Xen.  It would be nice if
> > fw_cfg could be enabled even for Xen on all machines except the legacy "-M
> > xenfv".
> >
> > Stefano, could you give it a shot now that you'll be soon done with 4.4?
>
> It might not be that straightforward as Xen emulates some devices in the
> hypervisor and patches have been recently posted to support multiple
> device models for a single VM.

I'm not sure how this is related to fw_cfg?  fw_cfg is just a simple 
key-value store.  If hvmloader doesn't use it, it should be a burden.

Paolo

  reply	other threads:[~2014-02-05 16:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-04 21:32 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] pc_piix: enable legacy hotplug for Xen Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-02-04 21:55 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-02-04 22:28   ` Sander Eikelenboom
2014-02-05 16:35     ` Stefano Stabellini
2014-02-05 16:45       ` Sander Eikelenboom
2014-02-05 16:50         ` Stefano Stabellini
2014-02-05 16:41   ` Stefano Stabellini
2014-02-05 16:47     ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2014-02-05 16:54       ` Stefano Stabellini
2014-02-05 17:04         ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-02-05 17:53           ` Stefano Stabellini

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