[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] Xen 4.4 development update
On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 10:48:13AM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote: > On Fri, Sep 20, George Dunlap wrote: > > > On 20/09/13 16:57, Olaf Hering wrote: > > >On Mon, Sep 16, George Dunlap wrote: > > > > > >>* xend still in tree > > >> - xl list -l on a dom0-only system > > >> - xl list -l doesn't contain tty console port > > >> - Alternate transport support for migration > > >libxl has no pvscsi support. This is listed as "SCSI LUN/Host > > >passthrough (PVSCSI)" in the page below. > > > > > > > > > >Is PVUSB already handled by libxl? > > > > > >http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/XL_vs_Xend_Feature_Comparison > > > > Are you personally using PVSCSI, and/or pvusb, and/or do you know any large > > downstreams and/or user bases that depend on them? > > I'm not using it myself. At least two different customers were using it. > As Jan said in his reply, we should not silently drop functionality. > Earlier James Harper mentioned on xen-devel that he'd take a look at implementing PVSCSI in xl/libxl, because he's using Xen PVSCSI for tape backups, but I don't think he got to it so far... > > That said, pvusb should be really simple to do once we have the HVM hot-plug > > support; I've got a patch series that just needs to be cleaned up and > > submitted. It's on my short list of things to do, but realistically looking > > like it's not going to happen for 4.4 (unless we reconsider the release > > cycle length). If you're interested in taking it over, I'd be happy to hand > > it off to you. > > Up to now I have not looked at pvusb. I will do so in the next days. > A lot of Xen users are asking for PVUSB, it's being discussed often on ##xen and on mailinglists, but it isn't very easy to use these days because of the out-of-tree usbback/usbfront drivers, and toolstack support only in xm/xend. -- Pasi _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
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