Re: Xen 4.3 development update

[Igor Kozhukhov <ikozhukhov@gmail.com>]

And maybe add:
* try to port xen-4.3 to illumos-based platform :)

I have some progress - but have panic.

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Best regards,
Igor Kozhukhov
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On 10/1/12 8:42 PM, "Pasi Kärkkäinen" <pasik@iki.fi> wrote:

>On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 05:25:43PM +0100, George Dunlap wrote:
>> 
>> * xl USB pass-through for PV guests
>>   owner: ?
>>   status: ?
>>   - Port the xend PV pass-through functionality to xl.
>>   - Make sure qemu-based USB with qemu-upstream works
>>   - Upstream the Linux frontend/backend drivers
>> 
>
>I think this should be split into two separate tasks:
>
> * xl PVUSB pass-through for both PV and HVM guests
>   owner: ? 
>   status: ? 
>   - xm/xend supports PVUSB pass-through to guests with PVUSB drivers
>(both PV and HVM guests).
>   - port the xm/xend functionality to xl.
>   - this PVUSB feature does not require support or emulation from Qemu.
>   - upstream the Linux frontend/backend drivers. Current
>work-in-progress versions are in Konrad's git tree.
>   - James Harper's GPLPV drivers for Windows include PVUSB frontend
>drivers.
>
> * xl USB pass-through for HVM guests using Qemu USB emulation
>   owner: ? 
>   status: ?
>   - xm/xend with qemu-traditional supports USB passthrough to HVM guests
>using the Qemu emulated USB controller.
>   - port the xm/xend functionality to xl.
>   - make sure USB passthrough with xl works with both qemu-traditional
>and qemu-upstream.
>   - The HVM guest does not need any special drivers for this feature.
>
>
>-- Pasi
>
>
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