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Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [Xen-users] Is xen planning to support hvm guests bo

To: Keir Fraser <keir.xen@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [Xen-users] Is xen planning to support hvm guests booting under UEFI?
From: "Andrei E. Warkentin" <andrey.warkentin@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 14:52:28 -0400
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Hi,

2011/9/27 Keir Fraser <keir.xen@xxxxxxxxx>:
> On 27/09/2011 07:41, "Ian Campbell" <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>> OVMF is aware of Xen, and work was being done on a PV block device
>>> (Bei got as far as hypercall support and xenstore). Bei, are you
>>> working on the PV block driver? I want to say we're pretty close on
>>> that one (PV block not very hard, and neither is the block device
>>> abstraction for EFI).
>>
>> Thanks for the update, it sounds like it's pretty far along.
>>
>> The PV enhancements etc sound great but it would be nice if we could tie
>> up the baseline stuff so that folks can start using it.
>
> Yes, we'd rather get something basically working into the tree, than wait
> for everything to be absolutely perfect.
>
>> Is Bei still working on the project since the end of GSoC? If not is
>> there an archive of what he accomplished so that we can find someone to
>> pick up on it if necessary?
>>
>>> I/Bei had patches against hvmloader (to support booting OVMF) and Bei
>>> had patches against the management stack as well to expose the
>>> functionality of picking OVMF as the firmware. I believe all of these
>>> were sent to xen development list.
>>
>> I remember these. A bunch got applied after some discussion but IIRC not
>> all of them were? Bei, are you able to resend the ones which did not?
>
> Pretty much all the non-ovmf-specific changes went in (i.e., the most
> contentious bits, to existing hvmloader code, should be pretty much checked
> in already).
>

This is just a ping to let you know that I'm still on this. I'll
update you guys as soon as
I can get Bei's work on top of latest hg tree building and running.

Thanks,
A

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