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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] libxl/pvh: force PVH guests to use the xenstore shutdown



On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 02:36:06PM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Roger Pau Monne writes ("[PATCH] libxl/pvh: force PVH guests to use the 
> xenstore shutdown"):
> > There's no other way to shutdown a PVH guest at the moment.
> 
> This commit message is rather confusing.
> 
> Do you mean, instead:
> 
>   PVH guests are all required to support the xenstore-based shutdown
>   signalling, since there is no other way for a PVH guest to be
>   requested to shut down.
> 
>   For HVM guests we check whether the guest has installed a PV-on-HVM
>   interrupt callback; that does not make sense for PVH guests.
> 
>   So for PVH guests, take the PV path: assume that all PVH guests have
>   suitable xenstore drivers.
> 
> ?

Yes, that's exactly what I meant but failed to express. Feel free to
replace the commit message with yours.

Thanks, Roger.

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