Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH] qemu-xen: Fix PV segfault

[Kevin Wolf <kwolf@xxxxxxx>]

Kevin Wolf schrieb:
> Gerd Hoffmann schrieb:
>> Kevin Wolf wrote:
>>> Actually, I think Xen PV is a different architecture, not just a
>>> different PC machine.
>> That isn't visible to qemu though as cpu virtualization is handled by
>> the xen hypervisor.
>>
>>> So to be consistent with qemu it would be a
>>> separate binary like qemu-system-xenpv.
>> I wouldn't do it that way for the reason outlined above, but it is an
>> option, yes.
> 
> It's not only the CPU virtualization I'm talking about. PV machines also
> have "hardware" devices completely different from PCs. Just look at
> pc_init1(), that's all stuff PV machines won't need.

Seems the temperature prevents clear thinking. Forget about the hardware
devices, that's exactly what the different machines are for...

Kevin

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