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Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC v1 05/13] libxc: introduce a domain
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El 23/06/15 a les 11.29, Jan Beulich ha escrit:
>>>> On 22.06.15 at 18:11, <roger.pau@citrix.com> wrote:
>> Introduce a very simple (and dummy) domain loader to be used to load the
>> firmware (hvmloader) into HVM guests. Since hmvloader is just a 32bit elf
>> executable the loader is fairly simple.
> 
> But hvmloader gets loaded fine today - why is this needed?

So that we can use the same set of xc_dom_* functions that we currently
use on x86 to build PV guests, instead of the crappy setup_guest stub
that we have in xc_hvm_build_x86.c.

As said in the cover letter, patches 1 to 7 aim at unifying the way HVM
and PV guests are created on x86.

Roger.