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RE: Bare metal driver for PV ethernet
- To: Paul Leiber <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- From: Klaus Darilion <klaus.darilion@xxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2025 22:33:43 +0000
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- Thread-topic: Bare metal driver for PV ethernet
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Xen-users <xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Paul
> Leiber
> Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2025 9:40 PM
> To: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Bare metal driver for PV ethernet
>
> Am 04.02.2025 um 16:38 schrieb Carlos Domínguez Sánchez:
> > We have been working with Xen and we successfully use the PV ethernet
> > interface from Linux guests. We would like to follow the same approach
> > with bare metal guests, but we did not find the appropriate driver for
> > the virtual ethernet. Does anyone face a similar problem? Do you have
> > any suggestion?
>
> I don't have an answer to your question, I am afraid, but rather a
> question myself. I apologize if my question is stupid. I know what a
> bare metal server is, but I am not aware of the concept of a "bare metal
> guest", so what does it mean? I found a document which describes how to
> install a VM on a bare metal system [1], and something related to a
> hypervisor called bao [2] but I am still unsure what the concept means.
I think the term "bare metal guest" refers to a XEN guest which does not run a
complete operating system, but only a single application, as described for
example here:
https://github.com/dornerworks/xzd_baremetal/blob/master/docs/index.md
regards
Klaus
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