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From: PGNet Dev <pgnet.dev@gmail.com>
To: roger.pau@citrix.com, xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Cc: boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com
Subject: Re: Clarifying PVH mode requirements
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2016 04:30:01 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56AF4FC9.5050408@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56AF3336.7040906@citrix.com>

On 02/01/2016 02:28 AM, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
>>      Do any of these^^ params need to also change with the addition of
>>
>>      pvh = 1
>
> Yes, you need to remove builder, xen_platform_pci and
> device_model_version, and add a kernel and ramdisk parameters that point
> to the actual kernel and ramdisk that you want to use. The file should
> look like:

Got it now.  It's a PVH config to start, not an HVM -- different than 
PVHVM ...

>> But checking cpu,
>>
>>      hwinfo --cpu | egrep "Arch|Model"
>>        Arch: X86-64
>>        Model: 6.60.3 "Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1220 v3 @ 3.10GHz"
>
> You CPU is perfectly capable of running both a PVH Dom0 or DomU, check:
>
> http://ark.intel.com/products/52269/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E3-1220-8M-Cache-3_10-GHz
>
> Look for EPT and VT-d which are the main requirements for PVH.

Clear enough.  Guess it's presumed in 'modern' VT-x; odd that cat 
/proc/cpuinfo provides no indication

  reply	other threads:[~2016-02-01 12:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-31 21:27 Clarifying PVH mode requirements PGNet Dev
2016-02-01  3:47 ` PGNet Dev
2016-02-01 10:30   ` Roger Pau Monné
2016-02-01 12:16     ` PGNet Dev
2016-02-01  9:59 ` Wei Liu
2016-02-01 12:23   ` PGNet Dev
2016-02-01 12:29     ` Wei Liu
2016-02-01 12:29     ` Roger Pau Monné
2016-02-01 12:38       ` PGNet Dev
2016-02-01 13:38         ` PGNet Dev
2016-02-01 14:54           ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-02-01 16:56             ` Jan Beulich
2016-02-01 19:17               ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-02-02  9:32                 ` Jan Beulich
2016-02-02 15:51             ` Jan Beulich
2016-02-02 16:16               ` PGNet Dev
2016-02-01 10:28 ` Roger Pau Monné
2016-02-01 12:30   ` PGNet Dev [this message]
2016-02-01 14:11   ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-02-01 15:49     ` PGNet Dev
2016-02-01 19:14       ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-02-01 19:27         ` PGNet Dev
2016-02-01 19:58           ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-02-01 23:49             ` Brendan Gregg
2016-02-02 15:28               ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-02-04 22:01                 ` PGNet Dev
2016-02-04 22:39                   ` Boris Ostrovsky

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