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Re: [Xen-users] How to disable VGA in HVM guests?



On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 10:48 PM, Jakub S. <szefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  I'm setting up HVM guests which will only have interaction with the
> network and am trying to get rid of any excess functionality and overheads.

Why use HVM at all then?
You'd get much less overhead when using PV domUs. If the domU/guest OS
is not PV-capable, installing PV drivers should help reduce the
emulation overhead.

>
> Ideally, is it possible to configure Xen (or edit Xen code) such that
> the VGA is not even announced on the virtual PCI bus?

You could probably try these combination on domU config file:

nographic=yes
serial=pty

-- 
Fajar

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