Re:[Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 0/6] Xen PV on HVM fixes and improvements

From: Stefano Stabellini
Date: Thu Mar 03 2011 - 10:05:21 EST


On Thu, 3 Mar 2011, topperxin wrote:
> Hi stefano,
>
> ÂÂ It's very great of your work.I think it't usefulÂ
> to me, I have checked it out, and I will study it.
> ÂÂWhat I care mostly is the pv-on-hvm drivers, nowÂ
> my main work is port pvonhvm drivers to various guest
> OS, no matter what OS version, such as ubuntu 10.10,Â
> debian 505 etc. But I found this work is difficult &Â
> boring to me, I can't find a general method which canÂ
> easily port the pvonhvm drivers to all kinds guest os.
> Do you have any good ideas?

PV on HVM is upstream now, so it is just a matter of time before all the
distros will have a kernel that supports PV on HVM out of the box.


> ÂÂ I found there are not platform-pci source in yourÂ
> project, as we know, in the old pvonhvm drivers version,
> platform-pci module is important, it was used to establish
> the communication mechanism, such as xenbus, evtchn,etc,Â
> could you please tell me how can you get rid of it? and howÂ
> can youÂsubstitute platform-pci, with which?

Yes there is:
drivers/xen/platform-pci.c