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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] libxl: enabling upstream qemu as pure pv backend

To: Wei Liu <liuw@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] libxl: enabling upstream qemu as pure pv backend.
From: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2011 13:24:34 +0100
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On Wed, 2011-06-08 at 11:20 +0100, Wei Liu wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-06-08 at 09:55 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > One general concern I have is there are cases where we want 2 DM
> > instances. In particular we can have an FV instance running in a stub
> > domain which uses a PV instance running in dom0 for certain
> > functionality (e.g. emulated VGA in the FV stub domain qemu goes to an
> > xenfb frontend talking to a xenfb backend running in a PV qemu in domain
> > 0).
> > 
> 
> Ah, I misunderstood you at first. This use case is a bit complicated. I
> still wonder if libxl supports this kind of configuration...

I think so, and if not then it will need to at some point.

> TBH, I'm not familiar with stubdom.

stubdom is when you run the HVM device model in its own PV domain
instead of as a process in domain 0. Long run this is the model we would
like to be moving towards.

Ian.


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