Julien Grall <jul...@xen.org> writes:
> Hi, > > There seem to be some missing patches on xen-devel (including the > cover letter). Is that expected? > > On 15/10/2022 06:07, Vikram Garhwal wrote: >> Add a new machine xenpv which creates a IOREQ server to register/connect with >> Xen Hypervisor. > > I don't like the name 'xenpv' because it doesn't convey the fact that > some of the HW may be emulated rather than para-virtualized. In fact > one may only want to use for emulating devices. > > Potential name would be 'xen-arm' or re-using 'virt' but with > 'accel=xen' to select a Xen layout. I don't think you can re-use the machine name and select by accelerator because the virt machine does quite a lot of other stuff this model doesn't support. However I've been calling this concept "xen-virt" or maybe the explicit "xen-virtio" because that is what it is targeting. -- Alex Bennée
