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From: Lukas Laukamp <lukas@laukamp.me>
To: "Pasi Kärkkäinen" <pasik@iki.fi>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Subject: Re: [User Question] KVM and VirtualBox in Xen Dom0
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 15:52:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a62fce60d8c566e07fa241f405af998f@laukamp.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120920083742.GW8912@reaktio.net>

Am 2012-09-20 10:37, schrieb Pasi Kärkkäinen:
> On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 10:03:43AM +0200, Lukas Laukamp wrote:
>> >
>> >I think it *might* be possible when Xen PVH (Hybrid) is merged to
>> >Xen 4.3,
>> >which basically allows running Xen dom0 in HVM container.
>> >
>> >-- Pasi
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I googled for xen Hybrid, but have question if I understand it
>> correct. Now the Dom0 is a PV Guest.
>>
>
> Correct.
>
>> With Xen Hybrid the Dom0 can run as a HVM with PV features on the 
>> hypervisor.
>>
>
> PVH dom0 is basicly PV dom0 in HVM container. It's more PV than HVM.
>
>> This would make it possible because of nested virtualization that 
>> KVM and VirtualBox
>> run inside dom0 right?
>>
>
> Yes, but PVH doesn't enable nested virt automatically, that'll
> require some extra patches.
>
>> And my second question would be: Is the aim of Xen hybrid to bring
>> Dom0 support to more OSes?
>>
>
> The purpose of PVH dom0 is to be able to utilize HAP (Hardware
> Assisted Paging)
> in dom0, and also lowering syscall overhead for 64bit dom0.
>
> So it's about optimizations.
> See Mukesh's presentation about PVH/Hybrid from XenSummit North 
> America 2012.
>
> -- Pasi
>
>
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Hello,

thanks for our replies Fajar and Pasi. My questions are replied now. I 
thought it would be comfortable to have them all on one host, we will 
see whether it's possible in future with PVH.

Best Regards

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-09-20 13:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-20  7:11 [User Question] KVM and VirtualBox in Xen Dom0 Lukas Laukamp
2012-09-20  7:36 ` Pasi Kärkkäinen
2012-09-20  7:44   ` Lukas Laukamp
2012-09-20  7:52     ` Pasi Kärkkäinen
2012-09-20  8:03       ` Lukas Laukamp
2012-09-20  8:37         ` Pasi Kärkkäinen
2012-09-20 13:52           ` Lukas Laukamp [this message]
2012-09-20  8:10     ` Fajar A. Nugraha

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