Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 03/16] SUPPORT.md: Add some x86 features

2017-11-21 Thread Jan Beulich
>>> On 21.11.17 at 13:24, wrote: >> On Nov 21, 2017, at 11:35 AM, Jan Beulich >> Much depends on whether you think "guest" == "DomU". To me >> Dom0 is a guest, too. > > That’s not how I’ve ever understood those terms. > > A guest at a hotel is someone who is served,

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 03/16] SUPPORT.md: Add some x86 features

2017-11-21 Thread Ian Jackson
Jan Beulich writes ("Re: [PATCH 03/16] SUPPORT.md: Add some x86 features"): > Much depends on whether you think "guest" == "DomU". To me > Dom0 is a guest, too. Not to me. I'm with George. (As far as I can make out his message, which I think was sent with HTML-style quoting which some Citrix

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 03/16] SUPPORT.md: Add some x86 features

2017-11-21 Thread George Dunlap
On Nov 21, 2017, at 11:35 AM, Jan Beulich > wrote: On 21.11.17 at 11:42, > wrote: On 11/21/2017 08:09 AM, Jan Beulich wrote: On 13.11.17 at 16:41,

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 03/16] SUPPORT.md: Add some x86 features

2017-11-21 Thread Jan Beulich
>>> On 21.11.17 at 11:42, wrote: > On 11/21/2017 08:09 AM, Jan Beulich wrote: > On 13.11.17 at 16:41, wrote: >>> +### x86/PVH guest >>> + >>> +Status: Supported >>> + >>> +PVH is a next-generation paravirtualized mode >>> +designed to

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 03/16] SUPPORT.md: Add some x86 features

2017-11-21 Thread George Dunlap
On 11/21/2017 08:09 AM, Jan Beulich wrote: On 13.11.17 at 16:41, wrote: >> +### x86/PVH guest >> + >> +Status: Supported >> + >> +PVH is a next-generation paravirtualized mode >> +designed to take advantage of hardware virtualization support when possible. >>

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 03/16] SUPPORT.md: Add some x86 features

2017-11-21 Thread Jan Beulich
>>> On 13.11.17 at 16:41, wrote: > +### Host ACPI (via Domain 0) > + > +Status, x86 PV: Supported > +Status, x86 PVH: Tech preview Are we this far already? Preview implies functional completeness, but I'm not sure about all ACPI related parts actually having

[Xen-devel] [PATCH 03/16] SUPPORT.md: Add some x86 features

2017-11-13 Thread George Dunlap
Including host architecture support and guest types. Signed-off-by: George Dunlap --- CC: Ian Jackson CC: Wei Liu CC: Andrew Cooper CC: Jan Beulich CC: Stefano Stabellini