Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 28/40] xenner: libxc emu: evtchn

[Alexander Graf]

On 01.11.2010, at 11:45, Anthony Liguori wrote:

> On 11/01/2010 10:01 AM, Alexander Graf wrote:
>> Xenner emulates parts of libxc, so we can not use the real xen infrastructure
>> when running xen pv guests without xen.
>> 
>> This patch adds support for event channel communication.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf<address@hidden>
>>   
> 
> Has anyone checked with the Xen folks about supporting this type of 
> functionality in libxc directly?


The issue I have with libxc is that it goes orthogonal to the qemu 
infrastructure way of doing things. If we base on libxc, we will never be able 
to do cross-architecture execution of xen pv guests. Do we really want to go 
that way?


Alex