Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v3 2/6] libxl: do not add a vkb backend to hvm guests

[Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 1 Jul 2015, Roger Pau Monnà wrote:
> El 01/07/15 a les 12.29, Stefano Stabellini ha escrit:
> > Given that xen-fbfront is likely to go away for HVM guests, I wouldn't
> > be opposed to stop the driver initialization in Linux on x86/HVM. Unless
> > Roger's work on HVMlite is going to need xen-fbfront again, but in that
> > case we'll be able to distinguish a regular HVM guest from an HVMlite
> > guest, I think.
>
> I haven't get to that point yet, but yes, it seems useful for HVMlite
> guests because we won't have an emulated VGA card any more.
>
> HVMlite guest can be easily identified because they set the device model
> to none:
>
> device_model_version == LIBXL_DEVICE_MODEL_VERSION_NONE

What about the guest side? Are they going to be hvm guests from Linux
POV? Or something else?

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