Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC v1 00/13] Introduce HMV without dm and new boot ABI

2015-07-03 Thread Tim Deegan
At 07:52 -0400 on 24 Jun (1435132373), Boris Ostrovsky wrote: On 06/24/2015 06:14 AM, Roger Pau Monné wrote: El 24/06/15 a les 12.05, Jan Beulich ha escrit: On 24.06.15 at 11:47, roger@citrix.com wrote: What needs to be done (ordered by priority): - Clean up the patches, this

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC v1 00/13] Introduce HMV without dm and new boot ABI

2015-06-24 Thread Boris Ostrovsky
On 06/24/2015 06:14 AM, Roger Pau Monné wrote: El 24/06/15 a les 12.05, Jan Beulich ha escrit: On 24.06.15 at 11:47, roger@citrix.com wrote: What needs to be done (ordered by priority): - Clean up the patches, this patch series was done in less than a week. - Finish the boot ABI (this

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC v1 00/13] Introduce HMV without dm and new boot ABI

2015-06-24 Thread Roger Pau Monné
El 24/06/15 a les 12.05, Jan Beulich ha escrit: On 24.06.15 at 11:47, roger@citrix.com wrote: What needs to be done (ordered by priority): - Clean up the patches, this patch series was done in less than a week. - Finish the boot ABI (this would also be needed for PVH anyway). -

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC v1 00/13] Introduce HMV without dm and new boot ABI

2015-06-24 Thread Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 02:04:45PM +0200, Roger Pau Monné wrote: El 24/06/15 a les 13.52, Boris Ostrovsky ha escrit: On 06/24/2015 06:14 AM, Roger Pau Monné wrote: El 24/06/15 a les 12.05, Jan Beulich ha escrit: On 24.06.15 at 11:47, roger@citrix.com wrote: What needs to be done

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC v1 00/13] Introduce HMV without dm and new boot ABI

2015-06-24 Thread Stefano Stabellini
On Wed, 24 Jun 2015, Boris Ostrovsky wrote: On 06/24/2015 09:26 AM, Stefano Stabellini wrote: On Wed, 24 Jun 2015, Roger Pau Monné wrote: - PCI pass-through. Do we really need PCI pass-through? I see HVMlite mostly useful for Dom0, but also for higher security Linux and BSD guests.

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC v1 00/13] Introduce HMV without dm and new boot ABI

2015-06-23 Thread Ian Campbell
On Tue, 2015-06-23 at 11:55 +0100, Stefano Stabellini wrote: I don't know if we should introduce a new name for this, but I wanted to point out that this is different from PVH from Xen point of view. In particular most of the outstanding PVH work items (32bit, AMD) on the hypervisor would be

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC v1 00/13] Introduce HMV without dm and new boot ABI

2015-06-23 Thread Stefano Stabellini
On Tue, 23 Jun 2015, Ian Campbell wrote: On Tue, 2015-06-23 at 11:55 +0100, Stefano Stabellini wrote: I don't know if we should introduce a new name for this, but I wanted to point out that this is different from PVH from Xen point of view. In particular most of the outstanding PVH work

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC v1 00/13] Introduce HMV without dm and new boot ABI

2015-06-23 Thread Stefano Stabellini
On Mon, 22 Jun 2015, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 06:55:12PM +0100, Stefano Stabellini wrote: Hi Roger, given that this patch series is actually using the Xen hvm builder, I take that all the PVH code paths in Xen or the guest kernel are not actually used,

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC v1 00/13] Introduce HMV without dm and new boot ABI

2015-06-23 Thread Boris Ostrovsky
On 06/23/2015 09:12 AM, Stefano Stabellini wrote: On Tue, 23 Jun 2015, Ian Campbell wrote: On Tue, 2015-06-23 at 11:55 +0100, Stefano Stabellini wrote: I don't know if we should introduce a new name for this, but I wanted to point out that this is different from PVH from Xen point of view. In

[Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC v1 00/13] Introduce HMV without dm and new boot ABI

2015-06-22 Thread Roger Pau Monne
Before reading any further, keep in mind this is a VERY inital RFC prototype series. Many things are not finished, and those that are done make heavy use of duck tape in order to keep things into place. Now that you are warned, this series is split in the following order: - Patches from 1 to

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC v1 00/13] Introduce HMV without dm and new boot ABI

2015-06-22 Thread Stefano Stabellini
Hi Roger, given that this patch series is actually using the Xen hvm builder, I take that all the PVH code paths in Xen or the guest kernel are not actually used, correct? This is more like PV on HVM without QEMU, right? Do you think think this can work for Dom0 too? Would that make all the PVH

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC v1 00/13] Introduce HMV without dm and new boot ABI

2015-06-22 Thread Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 06:55:12PM +0100, Stefano Stabellini wrote: Hi Roger, given that this patch series is actually using the Xen hvm builder, I take that all the PVH code paths in Xen or the guest kernel are not actually used, correct? This is more like PV on HVM without QEMU, right?