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Re: [RFC PATCH v1 25/25] i386/xen: Initialize Xen backends from pc_basic_device_init() for emulation



On 02/03/2023 15:34, David Woodhouse wrote:
From: David Woodhouse <dwmw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Now that all the work is done to enable the PV backends to work without
actual Xen, instantiate the bus from pc_basic_device_init() for emulated
mode.

This allows us finally to launch an emulated Xen guest with PV disk.

    qemu-system-x86_64 -serial mon:stdio -M q35 -cpu host -display none \
      -m 1G -smp 2 -accel kvm,xen-version=0x4000a,kernel-irqchip=split \
      -kernel bzImage -append "console=ttyS0 root=/dev/xvda1" \
      -drive file=/var/lib/libvirt/images/fedora28.qcow2,if=none,id=disk \
      -device xen-disk,drive=disk,vdev=xvda

If we use -M pc instead of q35, we can even add an IDE disk and boot a
guest image normally through grub. But q35 gives us AHCI and that isn't
unplugged by the Xen magic, so the guests ends up seeing "both" disks.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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  hw/i386/pc.c | 7 +++++++
  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)


Reviewed-by: Paul Durrant <paul@xxxxxxx>




 


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