Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC] Add SUPPORT.md

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 31.08.17 at 13:25, <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 11:27:19AM +0100, George Dunlap wrote:
>> +## Limits/Guest
>> +
>> +### Virtual CPUs
>> +
>> +    Limit, x86 PV: 512
>> +    Limit, x86 HVM: 128
> 
> There has already been some discussion about the HVM vCPU limit due to
> other topics, is Xen really compromised on providing security support
> for this case?
> 
> I would very much like to have a host in osstest capable of creating
> such a guest, plus maybe some XTF tests to stress it.

The problem is that it working well depends on the workload you put
inside the guest. Simply booting such a guest is quite likely going to
be fine (I've tried it a long while ago without seeing any issues).

Jan


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