Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH] qemu-xen: Fix PV segfault

[John Levon <levon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 03:32:15PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:

> > > While I'm at it:  There is a patch queue with at
> > > http://kraxel.fedorapeople.org/patches/
> > > 
> > > The plan is to submit that stuff upstream, so regular qemu will have xen
> > > support.  Right now the patch queue has only paravirt bits.  It comes
> > 
> > I'm confused, I thought that was the point of the qemu-xen tree
> 
> Gerd Hoffman's tree seems to be something entirely different.  I'm not
> sure I understand what the point of it is.  The reason why everyone is
> using qemu is that it has all of the hardware emulation device models.

Oh, if it's just the PV bits, then it's probably part of the work to
drop the need for the Xen daemons altogether and move to a domain ==
running qemu implementation as Dan Berrange presented at the summit some
time ago.

This approach has some big advantages (a lot less code) but yeah, it is
a little weird.

regards
john

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