Re: [PATCH] xl: Add 'pvh' config option

[Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>]

On 03/31/2017 09:49 AM, Wei Liu wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 09:43:07AM -0400, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
>> On 03/31/2017 06:23 AM, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
>>> On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 07:06:15PM -0400, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
>>>> In addition to 'device_model_version="none"' config option users can
>>>> also use 'pvh=1' in xl configuration file when creating a PVH guest.
>>> I'm not sure, but I think the plan was to remove device_model_version="none"
>>> and instead just use pvh=1, instead of keeping both. I don't have a strong
>>> opinion here, so I will leave that to the xl maintainers.
>> I thought we had PVHv2 in 4.8 but apparently not. I will remove it then.
>>
> You can't remove the DM version none just yet.
>
> I think Ian has ask for adding a PVH guest type and pvh=1 sets that. It
> is a bit more work than this patch.

That would make the toolstack have three guest types while the
hypervisor has two.

(Maybe this was already covered but I don't remember seeing this
discussion).

-boris


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