Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC] tools/libxl: Switch Arm guest type to PVH

[Julien Grall <julien.grall@xxxxxxx>]

On 06/26/2018 07:49 AM, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 05:39:12PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > Roger Pau Monné writes ("Re: [PATCH RFC] tools/libxl: Switch Arm guest type to 
> > PVH"):
> > > IMO I would remove the 'type' option from xl.cfg (so that it's
> > > basically ignored) in the ARM case and force it internally to PVH (if
> > > that's the best route for current ARM guests).
> > What about libvirt users ?  I haven't seen what a libvirt Xen ARM
> > guest config looks like but we need to meak sure that existing guests
> > don't break.
> For livbirt (or users of libxl library) we could force the type to
> pvh, regardless of the value set by the client, but I guess that would
> make adding types later on quite complicated.
I am fairly confident we will never have PV guest on Arm. So one 
solution would be to alias PV to PVH for Arm. This still give us the 
liberty to add more guest type in the future.
Any opinions?

Cheers,

--
Julien Grall

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