Re: [Xen-devel] Questions about PVH in Xen 4.3 unstable

[Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Samuel Thibault, le Wed 30 Jan 2013 13:26:08 +0100, a écrit :
> Samuel Thibault, le Wed 30 Jan 2013 13:20:16 +0100, a écrit :
> > Roger Pau Monné, le Wed 30 Jan 2013 11:11:00 +0000, a écrit :
> > > On 30/01/13 11:04, George Dunlap wrote:
> > > > Yes, PVH is an extension of PV; so only operating systems which can be
> > > > ported to PV will support PVH.
> > > 
> > > Isn't it probably easier to port a system with PVHVM support to PVH?
> > 
> > In general, no. Porting a system to PV involves a lot of tricky things
> > deep in the OS, while writing a PV driver is much less involving.
> 
> Let me fix it: porting a system to PVH involves a lot less tricky things
> deep in the OS than porting it to PV. There are still quite a few tricky
> things to do, so I don't think PVH is half-way between PV and PVHVM.

Let me fix it again :)

Starting from PV, most of what you need to support PVH is to just drop
the PV implementation and use the native code, without writing any code.

So even if it PVH was actually halfway between PVHVM and PV, it surely
is not halfway between PV and PVHVM :)

Samuel

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