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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/6] libxl: do not add a vkb backend to
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Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2015 13:10:37 +0200
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Il 01/07/2015 12:55, Roger Pau Monn=E9 ha scritto:
> El 01/07/15 a les 12.29, Stefano Stabellini ha escrit:
>> Given that xen-fbfront is likely to go away for HVM guests, I wouldn't
>> be opposed to stop the driver initialization in Linux on x86/HVM. Unless
>> Roger's work on HVMlite is going to need xen-fbfront again, but in that
>> case we'll be able to distinguish a regular HVM guest from an HVMlite
>> guest, I think.
> I haven't get to that point yet, but yes, it seems useful for HVMlite
> guests because we won't have an emulated VGA card any more.

If you don't want have emulated vga you can already do it fast in xl =

cfg: vga=3D"none"
Note: emulated vga is used by spice and vnc of hvm domUs, without =

connecting with them you'll have black screen.

>
> HVMlite guest can be easily identified because they set the device model
> to none:
>
> device_model_version =3D=3D LIBXL_DEVICE_MODEL_VERSION_NONE
>
> For HVMlite.
>
> Roger.
>
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