Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 30 Oct 2012 19:28:59 +0100 | From | Olaf Hering <> | Subject | Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen PVonHVM: require at least Xen 3.4 as dom0 |
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On Tue, Oct 30, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 05:05:05PM +0100, Olaf Hering wrote: > > The XenPVHVM extensions have not been tested much on very old > > hypervisors. At least Xen 3.4 gets some testing with the pvops kernel. > > > > Require at least Xen 3.4 for the PVonHVM extensions. If an older > > hypervisor is detected the extensions will be disabled and the guest > > will only see emulated hardware. > > > > Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de> > > > > IIRC upstream Linux PVonHVM drivers do work OK today on RHEL5 Xen, > which advertises itself as Xen 3.1.2-based..
If thats the case, and a combination thats supposed to work, the patch can be dropped if the hvmloader does really leave room at FE700000-FE800000.
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