From: Don Slutz <dslutz@verizon.com>
To: "Zytaruk, Kelly" <Kelly.Zytaruk@amd.com>,
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julien.grall
Subject: Re: Xen 4.5 development update
Date: Fri, 30 May 2014 10:09:13 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <53889109.4030808@terremark.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <B756807489D6244883AC0B799A6EEC15010702A7@storexdag02.amd.com>
On 5/30/2014 9:57 AM, Zytaruk, Kelly wrote:
>> On 5/27/2014 2:06 PM, konrad.wilk@oracle.com wrote:
>>> Below is a summary of the projects / features being worked on for the
>>> 4.5 time frame that I had been gathering.
>>>
>>> * Don Slutz Prognosis: 100 %
>>> Bigger PCI hole in QEMU
>>> Re-write of HPET
>> An additional new feature:
>>
>> VMware backdoor (hypercall)
>>
> Hi Don, I'm not familiar with this feature but it intrigues me. Can you provide a very short description of what it is?
Support a sub-set of possible commands via port 0x5658 including VMware
RPC channels that allow VMware tools to run in the Guest.
This also allows requesting a clean shutdown (and reboot) of the Guest
if VMware tools is running.
> Is this for the VMWare backdoor port at I/O address 0x5658?
Yes.
> Is the scenario, VMWare running in a Xen guest VM?
If you mean VMware tools, then yes.
-Don Slutz
> Thanks,
> Kelly
>
>>
>> -Don Slutz
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Xen-devel mailing list
>>> Xen-devel@lists.xen.org
>>> http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-30 14:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-27 18:06 Xen 4.5 development update konrad.wilk
2014-05-27 19:18 ` Wei Huang
2014-05-28 11:43 ` Stefano Stabellini
2014-05-28 15:47 ` Julien Grall
2014-05-27 22:45 ` Wei Liu
2014-05-27 23:43 ` Andrew Cooper
2014-05-28 15:41 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
[not found] ` <CAGU+auv+nJAU9Ys9J15V03t-4r=ScVocomBKEN8dHwUQHTmT0w@mail.gmail.com>
2014-05-27 23:56 ` Aravindh Puthiyaparambil (aravindp)
2014-05-28 7:16 ` Jan Beulich
2014-05-28 18:49 ` Aravindh Puthiyaparambil (aravindp)
2014-05-28 15:42 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-05-28 10:01 ` Roger Pau Monné
2014-05-28 15:46 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-05-28 11:35 ` Stefano Stabellini
2014-05-29 1:25 ` Xu, Dongxiao
2014-05-30 10:09 ` Don Slutz
2014-05-30 13:57 ` Zytaruk, Kelly
2014-05-30 14:09 ` Don Slutz [this message]
2014-06-04 13:20 ` Lars Kurth
2014-06-04 13:50 ` Zytaruk, Kelly
2014-06-04 14:41 ` Sander Eikelenboom
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-06-18 20:22 konrad.wilk
2014-06-18 20:36 ` Julien Grall
2014-06-18 20:47 ` Andrew Cooper
2014-06-19 7:56 ` Paul Durrant
2014-06-18 21:24 ` Aravindh Puthiyaparambil (aravindp)
2014-06-18 21:56 ` Roy Franz
2014-06-19 4:05 ` Vijay Kilari
2014-06-19 10:23 ` Wei Liu
2014-06-19 12:05 ` Stefano Stabellini
2014-06-19 13:24 ` Don Slutz
2014-06-19 16:37 ` Jan Beulich
2014-06-19 16:46 ` Andrew Cooper
2014-06-19 14:15 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2014-06-20 8:50 ` Dario Faggioli
2014-06-23 14:25 ` Lars Kurth
2014-06-26 14:10 ` Ian Campbell
2014-06-27 14:55 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-07-01 16:43 konrad.wilk
2014-07-02 11:33 ` George Dunlap
2014-07-02 12:23 ` Jan Beulich
2014-07-11 6:51 ` Dario Faggioli
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