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From: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: Xen4.2-rc3 test result
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2012 08:31:12 +0100
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To: "Ren, Yongjie" <yongjie.ren@intel.com>
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On Thu, 2012-09-06 at 06:59 +0100, Ren, Yongjie wrote:
> > Have we ever supported HVM guest CPU remove? I thought not.
> > 
> > http://bugzilla.xen.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1822#c3 seems to
> > describe the behaviour I would expect.
> > 
> If we don't want to support HVM guest CPU remove in near future, I want to close this bug.

Is this something Intel is considering working on? If so then someone
should mention it to George in the 4.3 planning thread.

> > If this is supposed to be an existing feature then is this a regression
> > with xl vs xm or from 4.1 to 4.2?
> > 
> No, it's not a regression from 4.1 to 4.2.
> Neither Xen 4.1 nor 4.2 supports HVM guest CPU remove with xm or xl.

OK, then I can remove it from the TODO list for 4.2, since it certainly
isn't happening for 4.2.0 at this stage.

Thanks for letting me know,
Ian.