Re: [Xen-devel] Status of Nested Virt in 4.4 (Was: Re: Xen 4.4 development update)

["Zhang, Yang Z" <yang.z.zhang@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ian Campbell wrote on 2014-01-17:
> On Fri, 2014-01-17 at 02:16 +0000, Zhang, Yang Z wrote:
>> As Andrew said, nested still in experimental stage, because there
>> are still lots of scenarios I am not covered in my testing. So it
>> may not accurate to say it is good supported. But I hope people know
>> that the nested is ready to use now. And encourage them to try it
>> and report bug to us to push nested move forward.
> 
> Perhaps we could say it is "tech preview" rather than "experimental"?
> 
> What would really help is some clear guidance (i.e. docs, wiki page, a
> blog post or more than one of these) on:
>       * what configurations (L1 hyp/L2 guest) are supposed to work, are
>         tested and are considered Supported by you guys. * what
>         scenarios are expected to work, but have not been tested
>         (bug/success reports welcome etc) * what scenarios are expected
>         not to work but which we would like to support at some point or
>         are actively working on adding support for
>       * what scenarios are not expected to work and no one is working
> on
> 
> I think documenting the things toward the top end of that list would
> be most valuable, the last one could be quite a long list ("everything
> else") and is maybe a bit silly to try and enumerate.
> 
> Some docs and a blog post to raise awareness of the feature would
> likely help push things forwards, do you think you could put something
> together? For the docs either send a docs patch or write something on
> the wiki (email me your wiki userid if you need to be granted write
> access), for a blog post contact the publicity@ list.
> 
> You could also consider writing some instructions for test days so that
> the community can do some testing, it also a good way to gain visibility
> for a feature. It's probably too late to get that done for the one on
> Monday[0] but you should coordinate with Russ & Dario about a future one
> (a test day dedicated to nested virt is even a possibility)
> 

I have a draft document, but it seems I don't have the access to add wiki page. 
Do you know how to get it?

> Ian.
> 
> [0] http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_Test_Days
> 
> ttp://www.xenproject.org/about/events/viewevent/90-xen-test-day-for-4-
> 4-rc2 .html
>     http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_4.4_RC2_test_instructions


Best regards,
Yang


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