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Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] PATCH: remove is_vti

To: Masaki Kanno <kanno.masaki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] PATCH: remove is_vti
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Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2007 13:56:52 +0100
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Quoting Masaki Kanno <kanno.masaki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> Hi Tristan,
>
> I have two questions.

The general answer is: this is for backward compatibility.  I think we could
remove that in the future.

[...]
> Why should we check both flags?
> Is XEN_DOMAINSETUP_hvm_guest flag for xm restore command?
No.

[...]
> Why should we set is_hvm flag?
> I think that is_hvm flag was already set in domain_create().
True, but we were able to switch from PV to hvm with this hypercall!

Tristan.

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