From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Anthony Liguori Subject: Re: KVM Management : Paravirtualized Guests Date: Sat, 09 Aug 2008 10:50:51 -0500 Message-ID: <489DBCDB.4060607@codemonkey.ws> References: <522892.43684.qm@web35804.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: KVM List To: jdsw2002@yahoo.com Return-path: Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.184.239]:3713 "EHLO wr-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753804AbYHIPv2 (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Aug 2008 11:51:28 -0400 Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id 69so1024196wri.5 for ; Sat, 09 Aug 2008 08:51:27 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <522892.43684.qm@web35804.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: jd wrote: > Hi > > 1. How to help customers migrate from Xen PV images, to using KVM (with PV support) ? > You have two choices. Xenner[1] or doing a v2v conversion. [1] http://kraxel.fedorapeople.org/xenner/ > 2. Would appreciate any suggestions on making PV support easily available to users. Something we can do to work around, requirements of kernel version > 2.6.25, making virt_io drivers available. Are there pre-built kernels needed/available somewhere ? Source is available for older Linux kernels on the KVM downloads page. You'll have to provide binaries yourself. > > From recent posts it seems that direction is not to use PV for memory.. I don't know what it means to use "PV for memory". > does this mean that now one can use any kernel and needs virt_io drivers ? Can some one help explain the state and direction in this area. > I don't understand this question either. Regards, Anthony Liguori > Thanks > /Jd > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >