Xen 4.2 PV fails to boot -CURRENT PV domU

Eggert, Lars lars at netapp.com
Mon Sep 9 12:43:17 UTC 2013


Hi,

On Sep 9, 2013, at 14:16, Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau at citrix.com>
 wrote:
> Performance will probably be better on most workloads with PVHVM if you
> have HAP (Intel's Extended Page Table or AMD's Nested Page Tables). And
> also, i386 PV port is limited to only one vcpu, while PVHVM will allow
> you to use as many vcpus as you want.
> 
> PVHVM certainly has a higher resource requirement because it requires
> you to have a Qemu instance for each running VM, but that process is
> going to be idle most of the time (Qemu is mainly needed for booting).

thanks for the explanation. Is there an ETA for when the PVHVM code will be merged into the main -CURRENT tree?

Lars
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