From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stefano Stabellini Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/6] libxl: do not add a vkb backend to hvm guests Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2015 11:56:55 +0100 Message-ID: References: <1433930994-32527-2-git-send-email-stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com> <20150616145749.GC1813@zion.uk.xensource.com> <1435249141.32500.111.camel@citrix.com> <1435654263.21469.19.camel@citrix.com> <1435671177.21469.163.camel@citrix.com> <1435673633.21469.186.camel@citrix.com> <20150630203837.GF7546@l.oracle.com> <5593C70D.5020802@citrix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="1342847746-1849075357-1435748221=:4360" Return-path: In-Reply-To: <5593C70D.5020802@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: =?UTF-8?Q?Roger_Pau_Monn=C3=A9?= Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, Wei Liu , Ian Campbell , Stefano Stabellini , Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org --1342847746-1849075357-1435748221=:4360 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Length: 837 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 1 Jul 2015, Roger Pau Monn=C3=A9 wrote: > 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. > > HVMlite guest can be easily identified because they set the device model > to none: > > device_model_version =3D=3D LIBXL_DEVICE_MODEL_VERSION_NONE What about the guest side=3F Are they going to be hvm guests from Linux POV=3F Or something else=3F --1342847746-1849075357-1435748221=:4360 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel --1342847746-1849075357-1435748221=:4360--