Re: [patch 00/21] Xen-paravirt: Xen guest implementation for paravirt_ops interface

Rusty Russell
2007-02-17T04:59:24Z

On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 12:49 -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>
> > This patch series implements the Linux Xen guest in terms of the
> > paravirt-ops interface. The features in implemented this patch series
>
> I am thoroughly confused. Maybe that is because I have not been following
> this issue closely but it seems that you are using the paravirt interface
> as an API for Xen code in the guest? I thought the idea of paravirt was to
> have an API that is generic? This patchset seems to be mostly realizing
> Xen specific functionality? How does the code here interact with KVM,
> VMWare and other hypervisors?

It doesn't. Paravirt_ops provides the hooks. KVM, lguest, VMI and Xen
all need to implement what they want on top of them.

Hope that clarifies,
Rusty.