From: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
To: Don Slutz <don.slutz@gmail.com>
Cc: Tim Deegan <tim@xen.org>, Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com>,
Keir Fraser <keir@xen.org>, Jun Nakajima <jun.nakajima@intel.com>,
Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>,
George Dunlap <George.Dunlap@eu.citrix.com>,
Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>,
Eddie Dong <eddie.dong@intel.com>, Don Slutz <dslutz@verizon.com>,
xen-devel@lists.xen.org,
Aravind Gopalakrishnan <Aravind.Gopalakrishnan@amd.com>,
Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>,
Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>,
Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>,
Suravee Suthikulpanit <suravee.suthikulpanit@amd.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v12 6/8] tools: Add vmware_port support
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2015 17:01:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1436284900.25646.263.camel@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1435447665-5433-7-git-send-email-Don.Slutz@Gmail.com>
On Sat, 2015-06-27 at 19:27 -0400, Don Slutz wrote:
> This new libxl_domain_create_info field is used to set
> XEN_DOMCTL_CONFIG_VMWARE_PORT_MASK in the xc_domain_configuration_t
> for x86.
>
> In xen it is is_vmware_port_enabled.
>
> If is_vmware_port_enabled then
> enable a limited support of VMware's hyper-call.
>
> VMware's hyper-call is also known as VMware Backdoor I/O Port.
>
> if vmware_port is not specified in the config file, let
> "vmware_hwver != 0" be the default value. This means that only
> vmware_hwver = 7 needs to be specified to enable both features.
>
> vmware_hwver = 7 is special because that is what controls the
> enable of CPUID leaves for VMware (vmware_hwver >= 7).
>
> Note: vmware_port and nestedhvm cannot be specified at the
> same time.
>
> Signed-off-by: Don Slutz <dslutz@verizon.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-07-07 16:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-06-27 23:27 [PATCH v12 0/8] Xen VMware tools support Don Slutz
2015-06-27 23:27 ` [PATCH v12 1/8] tools: Add vga=vmware Don Slutz
2015-07-07 15:54 ` Ian Campbell
2015-06-27 23:27 ` [PATCH v12 2/8] xen: Add support for VMware cpuid leaves Don Slutz
2015-07-01 20:01 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2015-07-03 22:03 ` Don Slutz
2015-07-07 15:03 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2015-07-28 2:54 ` Don Slutz
2015-07-07 15:56 ` Ian Campbell
2015-06-27 23:27 ` [PATCH v12 3/8] tools: Add vmware_hwver support Don Slutz
2015-07-01 20:14 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2015-07-07 15:59 ` Ian Campbell
2015-07-28 2:58 ` Don Slutz
2015-06-27 23:27 ` [PATCH v12 4/8] vmware: Add VMware provided include file Don Slutz
2015-06-27 23:27 ` [PATCH v12 5/8] xen: Add vmware_port support Don Slutz
2015-06-27 23:27 ` [PATCH v12 6/8] tools: " Don Slutz
2015-07-07 16:01 ` Ian Campbell [this message]
2015-06-27 23:27 ` [PATCH v12 7/8] Add IOREQ_TYPE_VMWARE_PORT Don Slutz
2015-07-01 20:49 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2015-07-03 14:55 ` Don Slutz
2015-07-07 15:02 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2015-07-28 2:59 ` Don Slutz
2015-06-27 23:27 ` [PATCH v12 8/8] Add xentrace to vmware_port Don Slutz
2015-06-29 14:54 ` Andrew Cooper
2015-06-29 16:11 ` Don Slutz
2015-07-10 8:40 ` [PATCH v12 0/8] Xen VMware tools support Jan Beulich
2015-07-10 9:07 ` Wei Liu
2015-07-28 3:18 ` Don Slutz
2015-07-28 14:32 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
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