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From: Don Slutz <dslutz@verizon.com>
To: "Zytaruk, Kelly" <Kelly.Zytaruk@amd.com>,
	Don Slutz <dslutz@verizon.com>,
	"konrad.wilk@oracle.com" <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>,
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	"stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com"
	<stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>,
	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

  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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