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Re: [Qemu-devel] [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Citrix PV Bus device
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Pasi Kärkkäinen |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Citrix PV Bus device |
Date: |
Tue, 2 Jul 2013 13:54:00 +0300 |
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Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) |
On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 11:48:46AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-07-02 at 11:31 +0100, Paul Durrant wrote:
> > > > XS, XC and anyone else who chooses could carry a separate patch that
> > > > changes the default to 'install if there are no drivers', signalling
> > > > over xenstore, or ACPI, or a Windows domain policy, or whatever.
> > >
> > > Right.
> > >
> >
> > Surely having a new device for the purposes of hosting Citrix PV
> > drivers is a cleaner option for opting in? Note that I'm not proposing
> > the new device displaces the existing platform device in any way.
>
> A dislike for having to coordinate guest internal and guest external
> configuration changes in this way has been expressed by several people.
>
> However if you only intend to support your drivers on XenServer (and it
> is starting to seem like your constraints may end up forcing this option
> upon you) then you can equally well carry that new device in your
> patches too and manage it however your PMs require.
>
It's also good to remember the Citrix XenServer Windows PV drivers are now
opensource,
and (more) easily usable on non-XenServer environments aswell.
I hope they'd work on upstream Xen aswell.
-- Pasi
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Citrix PV Bus device, (continued)
Re: [Qemu-devel] [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Citrix PV Bus device, Ian Campbell, 2013/07/02
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Citrix PV Bus device, Paul Durrant, 2013/07/02
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Citrix PV Bus device, Ian Campbell, 2013/07/02
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Citrix PV Bus device, Tim Deegan, 2013/07/02
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Citrix PV Bus device, Ian Campbell, 2013/07/02
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Citrix PV Bus device, Paul Durrant, 2013/07/02
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Citrix PV Bus device, Ian Campbell, 2013/07/02
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Citrix PV Bus device,
Pasi Kärkkäinen <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Citrix PV Bus device, Tim Deegan, 2013/07/02
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Citrix PV Bus device, Ian Campbell, 2013/07/02
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Citrix PV Bus device, Paul Durrant, 2013/07/02
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Citrix PV Bus device, Ian Campbell, 2013/07/02
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Citrix PV Bus device, Paul Durrant, 2013/07/02
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Citrix PV Bus device, Ian Campbell, 2013/07/02
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Citrix PV Bus device, Paul Durrant, 2013/07/02
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Citrix PV Bus device, Paul Durrant, 2013/07/02
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Citrix PV Bus device, Ian Campbell, 2013/07/02
Re: [Qemu-devel] [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Citrix PV Bus device, Alex Bligh, 2013/07/02