From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Don Slutz Subject: Re: Xen 4.5 development update Date: Fri, 30 May 2014 10:09:13 -0400 Message-ID: <53889109.4030808@terremark.com> References: <20140527180640.6053D1BF275@phenom.dumpdata.com> <538858E0.3080905@terremark.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail6.bemta4.messagelabs.com ([85.158.143.247]) by lists.xen.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1WqNUk-0007WJ-FN for xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; Fri, 30 May 2014 14:09:18 +0000 In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: "Zytaruk, Kelly" , Don Slutz , "konrad.wilk@oracle.com" , "andrew.cooper3@citrix.com" , "andrew.bennieston@citrix.com" , "avanzini.arianna@gmail.com" , "ufimtseva@gmail.com" , "boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com" , "bob.liu@oracle.com" , "msw@amazon.com" , "david.vrabel@citrix.com" , "daniel.kiper@oracle.com" , "roger.pau@citrix.com" , "tiejun.chen@intel.com" , "mukesh.rathor@oracle.com" , "Wei.Liu2@citrix.com" , "stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com" , julien.grall List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org 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