From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pasi =?iso-8859-1?Q?K=E4rkk=E4inen?= Subject: Re: status of PV drivers in Xen 4.0 Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 19:16:57 +0300 Message-ID: <20100420161657.GX1878@reaktio.net> References: <4BB11551.5010707@inria.fr> <20100330060411.GT1878@reaktio.net> <4BBA14E6.70208@inria.fr> <20100410125850.GH1878@reaktio.net> <4BC3039C.8090602@inria.fr> <20100412155035.GZ1878@reaktio.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Andrew Lyon Cc: Guillaume Rousse , xen-devel@lists.xensource.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 05:05:37PM +0100, Andrew Lyon wrote: > >> > >> I'm not sure where to go next with this but I hope this info is useful. > >> > > > > Congratulations! > > > > This is valuable information, thanks for going through that. > > > > Can you reproduce this with Xen 4.0.0 ? ie. does opensuse xen have > > some patches related to pv-on-hvm drivers? > > I believe SLES11SP1 will have Xen 4.0 but I have been unable to find > anywhere to download srpms, apparently they are on dvd2 but as it is > still in beta there are no iso images either, however opensuse factory > does have a Xen 4.0 srpm: > > http://download.opensuse.org/factory/repo/src-oss/suse/src/xen-4.0.0_20978_01-1.4.src.rpm > > So the same process could be followed using that, I'm going to give it > a try tomorrow. > Did you have time to try this yet? > > > > If there are some patches, those should be upstreamed to Xen. > > Hmm, the patches may simply be there to allow building using the > /usr/src/linux/include/xen headers instead of /usr/src/xen/ , and as > xensource does not have a newer "classic" kernel than 2.6.18 why would > they upsteam them. > There has been a lot of demand for PV-on-HVM drivers recently so things that make them easier to build should be integrated to Xen, imo. Getting pvops-based pv-on-hvm drivers to upstream Linux is the ultimate goal of course :) -- Pasi