Tuesday, June 3, 2014

Re: [Fedora-xen] CONFIG_XEN_PVH ?

On Tue, Jun 03, 2014 at 02:12:17PM -0400, Bill McGonigle wrote:
> Hi, everybody,
>
> Went to give PVH a try, seeing as we have 4.4 and 3.14 now in f20, but:
>
> # grep XEN.*PV /boot/config-3.14.4-200.fc20.x86_64
> CONFIG_XEN_PVHVM=y
> # CONFIG_XEN_PVH is not set
> CONFIG_XEN_HAVE_PVMMU=y
>
> :(
>
> Does anybody want to talk me out of recompiling my kernel to try it out?
> If it's working should we ask for the f20 build to enable it? The docs
> make it sound like PVH is how we're going to be running everything in
> the not-too-distant future (and the design looks very sensible to me).

Yeah, but it is not yet baked - we still have some bugs before
we open the floodgates.
>
> Just finished replacing my AMD SOHO box with a Xeon 2620 box to give it
> a go (and also never got the AMD/UEFI box to properly allocate memory
> pages to Dom0) which made ZFS unbearable; now at this stage.

And for example it does not work at all under AMD :-)

>
> -Bill
>
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