Re: [Xen-API] OS X DomU Driver Porting

[Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 08:31:55AM +1000, Alan Forbes wrote:
> Hi Pasi,
> You may be absolutely correct on that one... but do remember that most Linux 
> DomUs are PV, not HVMs.
> 
> The windows drivers stand as a good guide or reference for building these 
> things, if anyone is up to the challenge..?
> 

Linux Xen PV drivers work OK in HVM guests (Xen PVHVM), they are the same 
drivers that you use in PV domUs.

-- Pasi

> Cheers,
> Alan
> 
> 
> On 27/06/2013, at 8:00 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 06:42:18PM +1000, Alan Forbes wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >> Now that the Guest Agent, XenVif, XenBus, etc drivers for Windows are 
> >> open-sourced and available freely online, is there a possibility of having 
> >> these drivers ported to OS X as a first step to officially (possibly) 
> >> supporting OS X guests ?
> >> 
> >> There is the question of the legalities of running OS X as a guest; I am 
> >> not asking about that, and am only asking about driver/kext support using 
> >> existing code.
> >> 
> > 
> > I'm guessing it'd be easier to port Linux/FreeBSD drivers to OSX than 
> > Windows drivers.. OSX is UNIX after all.
> > 
> > -- Pasi
> > 
> 

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