From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54599) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WB5eK-0002UR-2M for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 05 Feb 2014 11:48:38 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WB5eE-0007ne-3U for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 05 Feb 2014 11:48:32 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:48780) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WB5eD-0007nY-RU for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 05 Feb 2014 11:48:26 -0500 Message-ID: <52F26B14.2000807@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2014 17:47:16 +0100 From: Paolo Bonzini MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1391549456-465-1-git-send-email-mst@redhat.com> <52F161C6.4070603@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] pc_piix: enable legacy hotplug for Xen List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Stefano Stabellini Cc: Sander Eikelenboom , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Anthony Liguori , "Michael S. Tsirkin" Il 05/02/2014 17:41, Stefano Stabellini ha scritto: > > Yeah, especially because nowadays "-M pc" works with Xen. It would be nice if > > fw_cfg could be enabled even for Xen on all machines except the legacy "-M > > xenfv". > > > > Stefano, could you give it a shot now that you'll be soon done with 4.4? > > It might not be that straightforward as Xen emulates some devices in the > hypervisor and patches have been recently posted to support multiple > device models for a single VM. I'm not sure how this is related to fw_cfg? fw_cfg is just a simple key-value store. If hvmloader doesn't use it, it should be a burden. Paolo