Re: [Xen-devel] HVMLite / PVHv2 - using x86 EFI boot entry
From: Luis R. Rodriguez
Date: Wed Apr 13 2016 - 16:35:54 EST
On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 1:11 PM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
<konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I want to clarify now then what our exist path is, do we need to care
>> about legacy crap ?
>
> exist? Existing?
Sorry I meant 'exit path'.
> And by 'legacy crap' you mean 'pvops' - then the answer is no.
Not pvops -- but hardware without hardware virtualization bells and
whistles, are we then simply not going to need to support this old
crap hardware?
> The big existing use-case of pvops is to boot Linux as initial domain.
> If we can swap it over to PVH/HVMLite then that frees us from having to
> use pvops.
Right.
Luis