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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 00/11] [v2] misc changes for kexec in pv-on-hvm g

To: Olaf Hering <olaf@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 00/11] [v2] misc changes for kexec in pv-on-hvm guests
From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2011 13:35:37 -0400
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On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 03:23:00PM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
> 
> 
> The following series implement kexec in a pv-on-hvm guest.
> I send it here once more for further review before bothering lkml.

Ah, OK. Ignore my comment about attaching the other maintainers to
the patch then.
> 
> With this series doing kexec in a loop is now possible.
> 
> 
> A fixed kexec-tools-2.0.2 package is required:
> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/kexec/2011-May/005026.html
> However, as I just found out, xenfs unconditionally adds 
> /proc/xen/capabilities
> even for hvm guest.
> 
> So: how is a hvm guest supposed to be detected in 3.0?

A real "HVM" or PVonHVM?

What about following the syntax of 'xen-detect' which does an cpuid
instruction.

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> Olaf
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