[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] Questions about hvm domU default devices with upstream qemu
On Thu, 5 Sep 2013, Fabio Fantoni wrote: > Il 05/09/2013 13:23, Stefano Stabellini ha scritto: > > On Wed, 4 Sep 2013, Fabio Fantoni wrote: > > > Il 04/09/2013 15:17, Stefano Stabellini ha scritto: > > > > On Wed, 4 Sep 2013, Fabio Fantoni wrote: > > > > > Il 04/07/2013 15:51, Fabio Fantoni ha scritto: > > > > > > Last year I posted a question about default devices of upstream qemu > > > > > > that > > > > > > differ from qemu traditional, like empty floppy and cdrom in > > > > > > particular. > > > > > > About empty floppy now is disabled as workaround. > > > > > > About empty cdrom Stabellini tells that is useful, so I tried to use > > > > > > it > > > > > > but > > > > > > cd-insert was failing,and I must define other empty cdrom on xl > > > > > > configuration file, for example with: ',raw,hdb,ro,cdrom'. > > > > > > It seem that there isn't default devices usable without define them > > > > > > in > > > > > > xen, > > > > > > and I think that probably need to revise the definition of the > > > > > > devices > > > > > > to > > > > > > avoid empty and unusable ones and to do everything as best as > > > > > > possible > > > > > > (also > > > > > > with possibly reviewing qemu side). > > > > > > Another good thing is also consider pv domU case and possible future > > > > > > support > > > > > > of spice and/or other useful features. > > > > > > Thanks for any reply. > > > > > I seen no replies about this, I think is important improve upstream > > > > > qemu > > > > > support and remove the traditional ASA upstream will be equivalent or > > > > > superior > > > > > in all features. > > > > > > > > > > I also think is good idea add q35 support on xen. > > > > > Seem that hvm domUs have performance limits, in particular on windows > > > > > domUs > > > > > (also with pv drivers) caused probably by old hardware emulation by > > > > > qemu > > > > > and/or xen support limited on some instruction sets. > > > > > I don't know how to add essential q35 support on hvmloader to do some > > > > > tests > > > > > and have effective data about improvements. > > > > > Anyone on this? > > > > I agree that this is important and thanks for raising the issue. > > > > It would be nice if somebody stepped up to do the q35 work. > > > Thanks for reply, can you reply also on questions about default devices > > > with > > > upstream qemu please? > > I think it might be a good idea to keep the same set of default devices > > between qemu-traditional and qemu-xen. > > > > We always had an empty cdrom and I don't see why we should remove it. If > > cd-insert doesn't work, it's a bug and should be fixed. > > > > Supporting spice in PV guests would be hard, because spice needs QXL > > that is a PCI device. PV guests don't have a PCI bus. Of course if > > somebody did the work to make QXL and spice work with PV guests I would > > be happy to accept it. > > > > I agree that we should keep improving upstream QEMU, however removing > > qemu-traditional is not going to be easy because it's needed for > > compatibility when a guest started with qemu-traditional is > > live-migrated to a new system. But we can make sure that this remains > > the only use case for it. > > Thanks for reply. > > About qemu default empty and unusable floppy and cdrom I have already reply at > start of year that qemu traditional does not have them. > The tests were with xl only if I remember good, now I checked also on old > production server with xend and qemu traditional. I confirm that hvm domUs is > without empty floppy and cdrom also in that case. > > cd-insert works (tested with xl and upstream qemu). cd-insert does not works > only with qemu default empty cdrom because is undefined on xen side. So HVM domUs do NOT have a cdrom drive by default with qemu-traditional. Do they have an empty cdrom drive by default with qemu-xen? Is the lack of a cdrom drive the reason why cd-insert doesn't work by default (unless you specify an empty cdrom drive in the VM config file)? _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
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