Re: [PATCH v9 0/7] KVM: x86: Allow Qemu/KVM to use PVH entry point

Boris Ostrovsky
2018-12-14T23:14:17Z

On 12/10/18 2:05 PM, Maran Wilson wrote:
> For certain applications it is desirable to rapidly boot a KVM virtual
> machine. In cases where legacy hardware and software support within the
> guest is not needed, Qemu should be able to boot directly into the
> uncompressed Linux kernel binary without the need to run firmware.
>
> There already exists an ABI to allow this for Xen PVH guests and the ABI
> is supported by Linux and FreeBSD:
>
> https://xenbits.xen.org/docs/unstable/misc/pvh.html
>
> This patch series would enable Qemu to use that same entry point for
> booting KVM guests.
>

Applied to for-linus-4.21

-boris