[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0/8] xen: add pvh guest support
On Tue, Oct 09, 2018 at 11:35:28AM +0200, Juergen Gross wrote: > On 15/02/2018 13:02, Daniel Kiper wrote: > > Hi Juergen, > > > > Sorry for huge delay. It looks that I am recovering slowly and > > probably I will have more time for reviews. > > > > On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 02:46:42PM +0100, Juergen Gross wrote: > >> This patch series adds support for booting Linux as PVH guest. > >> > >> Similar to i386/xen and x86_64/xen platforms the new i386/xenpvh > >> platform grub is booted as a standalone image directly by Xen. > >> > >> For booting Linux kernel it is using the standard linux kernel > >> loader. The only modification of the linux loader is to pass the > >> ACPI RSDP address via boot parameters to the kernel, as that table > >> might not be located at the usual physical address just below 1MB. > > > > AIUI PVH is quite generic idea and can be implemented by different > > virtualization platforms. IIRC Maran Wilson works on PVH for KVM. > > So, would not it make more sense to have platform independent GRUB2 > > PVH code and then on top of that build Xen and KVM support? Could > > you do that? > > Finally I have some time to work on this series again. Great! I was a bit afraid that it will never happen... > I don't think this makes sense now for the following reasons: > > - Maran's series is stalled > - The main work is hypervisor specific and I have no idea right now > what would be needed for KVM > - Maran's series was targeted for a quick boot of the kernel right > from qemu without any other boot loader OK, so, let's leave it aside. I have seen new patchset. Thanks a lot! I will take a look at it this or next week. Daniel _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.xenproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xen-devel
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