From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: PGNet Dev Subject: Re: Clarifying PVH mode requirements Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2016 04:30:01 -0800 Message-ID: <56AF4FC9.5050408@gmail.com> References: <56AE7C3B.7010100@gmail.com> <56AF3336.7040906@citrix.com> Reply-To: PGNet Dev Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: In-Reply-To: <56AF3336.7040906@citrix.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: roger.pau@citrix.com, xen-devel@lists.xen.org Cc: boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On 02/01/2016 02:28 AM, Roger Pau Monn=E9 wrote: >> Do any of these^^ params need to also change with the addition of >> >> pvh =3D 1 > > Yes, you need to remove builder, xen_platform_pci and > device_model_version, and add a kernel and ramdisk parameters that point > to the actual kernel and ramdisk that you want to use. The file should > look like: Got it now. It's a PVH config to start, not an HVM -- different than = PVHVM ... >> But checking cpu, >> >> hwinfo --cpu | egrep "Arch|Model" >> Arch: X86-64 >> Model: 6.60.3 "Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1220 v3 @ 3.10GHz" > > You CPU is perfectly capable of running both a PVH Dom0 or DomU, check: > > http://ark.intel.com/products/52269/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E3-1220-8M-Cache= -3_10-GHz > > Look for EPT and VT-d which are the main requirements for PVH. Clear enough. Guess it's presumed in 'modern' VT-x; odd that cat = /proc/cpuinfo provides no indication