[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel][PATCH][RFC] Supporting Enlightened Windows 2008 Server
On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 10:28:28PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 03:15:19PM -0700, Ky Srinivasan wrote: > > I am attaching updated versions of the patches that I posted a couple > > of weeks ago. These have been merged up to the current unstable tip: > > changeset 17186:854b0704962b > > > > These patches have been tested on the unstable tip. > > I'm not expert enough to comment on the HV extension implementation itself, > but in terms of the userspace side, the user visible configuration file > option 'extid=1' is pretty unpleasant. It is akin to a 'magic constant' > in C code - no understandable meaning at all. > > I'd like to see it accept a named extension type - if its possible to > have multiple extensions per guest, then using a list instead of a scalar > would be better. So how about something closer to > > extensions = [ "win2k8" ] Or is there some way you can have some super light weight trap / hook always loaded, so when Win2k8 makes it first paravirt call, you can then automatically enable the full extension ? That could let Xen just 'do the right thing' without needing a config param, and without having to fully enable the full extension for non-Win2k8 guests. >Dan. -- |=- Red Hat, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Boston. +1 978 392 2496 -=| |=- Perl modules: http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ -=| |=- Projects: http://freshmeat.net/~danielpb/ -=| |=- GnuPG: 7D3B9505 F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 -=| _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
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