Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xl: Add 'pvh' config option

[Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 09:59:09AM -0400, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
> On 03/31/2017 09:49 AM, Wei Liu wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 09:43:07AM -0400, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
> >> On 03/31/2017 06:23 AM, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
> >>> On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 07:06:15PM -0400, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
> >>>> In addition to 'device_model_version="none"' config option users can
> >>>> also use 'pvh=1' in xl configuration file when creating a PVH guest.
> >>> I'm not sure, but I think the plan was to remove 
> >>> device_model_version="none"
> >>> and instead just use pvh=1, instead of keeping both. I don't have a strong
> >>> opinion here, so I will leave that to the xl maintainers.
> >> I thought we had PVHv2 in 4.8 but apparently not. I will remove it then.
> >>
> > You can't remove the DM version none just yet.
> >
> > I think Ian has ask for adding a PVH guest type and pvh=1 sets that. It
> > is a bit more work than this patch.
> 
> That would make the toolstack have three guest types while the
> hypervisor has two.
> 

Correct.

> (Maybe this was already covered but I don't remember seeing this
> discussion).
> 

See: <22709.46867.434595.470032@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> -boris
> 

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