On Wed Nov 12, 2025 at 11:58 AM CET, Teddy Astie wrote: > Le 11/11/2025 à 18:55, Grygorii Strashko a écrit : >> From: Grygorii Strashko <[email protected]> >> >> Hi >> >> This series introduces possibility to disable 32-bit (COMPAT) interface >> support >> in the following cases: >> - Only PVH domains are used > > I assume this one is mostly due to hvmloader being today running in > protected mode 32-bits rather than a limitation "HVM" itself. I don't > think of anything else preventing HVM (with 64-bits guests or 32-bits > ones without Xen support) from working with COMPAT disabled.
It is indeed because hvmloader makes hypercalls. Otherwise HVM would work too. Cheers, Alejandro
