From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Boris Ostrovsky Subject: Re: Clarifying PVH mode requirements Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2016 17:39:14 -0500 Message-ID: <56B3D312.4030402@oracle.com> References: <56AE7C3B.7010100@gmail.com> <56AF3336.7040906@citrix.com> <56AF679E.4040104@oracle.com> <56AF7E7A.1040305@gmail.com> <56AFAEA7.9060003@oracle.com> <56AFB1B8.5050202@gmail.com> <56AFB8F7.1040709@oracle.com> <56B0CB17.7040808@oracle.com> <56B3CA47.7090805@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <56B3CA47.7090805@gmail.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: PGNet Dev , bgregg@netflix.com Cc: xen-devel@lists.xen.org List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On 02/04/2016 05:01 PM, PGNet Dev wrote: >>> On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 11:58 AM, Boris Ostrovsky >>> Current PVH implementation has never been described as >>> production-ready. What is happening now with HVMlite is >>> essentially bringing PVH to production-quality level. >>> >>> >>> So should I s/PVH/HVMlite/g? >> >> From user perspective that will be almost true. I am not sure it should >> be classified as PV mode anymore since it's really an HVM guest without >> any devices. But it's not there yet so it's too early to point your >> editor there. >> >> BTW, I don't think the flowchart in the wiki is correct as far as PVH is >> concerned --- you can't use PVH unless HVM (and, in fact, PVHVM) is >> supported. > > Noting the very recent flurry of HVMLite activity, so where does PVH sit? > > As it's not production-ready (and, atm, unusable here), is it planned > to be? Not the current implementation. > Or is it being simply leap-frogged by HVMLite? > I don't know about "leap-frogged", I think you might say PVH evolved into HVMlite? -boris