Re: [Xen-devel][PATCH][RFC] Supporting Enlightened Windows 2008Server

["Ky Srinivasan" <ksrinivasan@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>>> On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 11:17 AM, in message
<20080405151705.GA19777@xxxxxxxxxx>, "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote: 
> On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 05:41:32PM -0600, Ky Srinivasan wrote:
>> Based on the feedback I got from you and Tim, I am enclosing 
>> the next version of the patches to support enlightened win2008
>>  server. Here are the changes I have made:
>> 
>> 1) I have put the shim on a low calorie diet - I have gotten rid
>>  of the framework infrastructure and to the extent possible 
>>  integrated the shim code with xen.
>> 
>> 2) I have tried to cleanup the code. I am sure  more work will be 
>> needed here.
>> 
>> 3) I am not advertising the TLB related enlightenments. We can 
>> revisit this later if needed.
> 
> 
>> Index: xen-unstable.hg/tools/python/xen/xm/create.py
>> ===================================================================
>> --- xen-unstable.hg.orig/tools/python/xen/xm/create.py       2008-04-04 
> 13:01:01.000000000 -0400
>> +++ xen-unstable.hg/tools/python/xen/xm/create.py    2008-04-04 
>> 13:45:08.000000000 
> -0400
>> @@ -207,6 +207,10 @@
>>            use="""Timer mode (0=delay virtual time when ticks are missed;
>>            1=virtual time is always wallclock time.""")
>>  
>> +gopts.var('extid', val='EXTID',
>> +          fn=set_int, default=0,
>> +          use="Specify extention ID for a HVM domain.")
>> +
>>  gopts.var('acpi', val='ACPI',
>>            fn=set_int, default=1,
>>            use="Disable or enable ACPI of HVM domain.")
>> @@ -750,7 +754,7 @@
>>  def configure_hvm(config_image, vals):
>>      """Create the config for HVM devices.
>>      """
>> -    args = [ 'device_model', 'pae', 'vcpus', 'boot', 'fda', 'fdb', 
> 'timer_mode',
>> +    args = [ 'device_model', 'pae', 'extid', 'vcpus', 'boot', 'fda', 'fdb', 
> 'timer_mode',
>>               'localtime', 'serial', 'stdvga', 'isa', 'nographic', 
> 'soundhw',
>>               'vnc', 'vncdisplay', 'vncunused', 'vncconsole', 'vnclisten',
>>               'sdl', 'display', 'xauthority', 'rtc_timeoffset', 'monitor',
> 
> 
> I'd still like to see the userspace tools side changed to not expose
> the integrate 'extid' value to administrators configuring guests, and
> instead use some semanatically meaningful string param
> 
> http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2008-03/msg00165.html

Absolutely. I will fix this in the next revision.

Regards,

K. Y
> 
> Regards,
> Daniel.


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