Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 00/19] libxl/xl: add PVH guest type

[Roger Pau Monne <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 12:24:29PM +0100, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> On 22/08/17 10:49, Roger Pau Monne wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > This series adds a new PVH guest type to libxl/xl, this supersedes the
> > current PVHv2 implementation, that relies on using the "none" device
> > model version.
> >
> > As part of this series a new xl option is also implemented, called
> > "type" that supersedes the current "builder" option. A "firmware"
> > option is also introduced in order to have a uniform way of loading
> > firmwares for all guest types (HVM, PV and PVH).
> >
> > Patch 1 lifts some fields from the libxl_domain_build_info domain
> > specific sub-structs into libxl_domain_build_info itself, so they can
> > be used by all domain types. Patches 2 and 3 introduce the new type
> > and firmware options. Patch 4 introduces the PVH guest type to libxl.
> >
> > Patches from 5 to 17 add PVH support to all the needed functions, this
> > could be considered a single patch, but I've tried to split it in
> > order to ease the review. The current split is done on a per file
> > basis.
> >
> > Finally patch 18 adds PVH support to xl and patch 19 removes the
> > device model version "none".
> 
> Can we keep none as an option, even if it looses its special PVH
> meaning?  I've got some plans for XTF testing where part of the test
> plays the part of qemu by connecting to the ioreq server, and having an
> ability to configure "no device model - I know what I'm doing" would be
> necessary.

I guess you cannot do that with PVH because you want the full set of
emulated devices by Xen to be available to XTF?

Roger.

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