Re: pvhgrub docs

[Hans van Kranenburg <hans@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On 10/8/21 12:14 AM, Andy Smith wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Oct 07, 2021 at 07:09:35AM -0500, Chris Myers wrote:
>> Out of curiosity, could someone point me to some documentation for pvhgrub?
> 
> I haven't found much, I've had to teach myself from other people's
> examples and some out of date articles on the Xen wiki. Here is what I
> learned so far and have had working for a year or so.
> 
> If you're currently running a PV mode guest and it has a kernel of
> 4.19 or greater, you can/should change it to a PVH mode guest.
> [...]

Actually, it's since Linux 4.20, officially, but the few remaining bits
to make it possible were also added [0] to the Debian 4.19 kernel so
that we had everything working for Buster.

Hans

[0]
https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux/commit/4d63e6ccbbd6081068633b1147e0f77a59379795