Re: [PATCH v8 1/7] xen/pvh: Split CONFIG_XEN_PVH into CONFIG_PVH and CONFIG_XEN_PVH
From: Paolo Bonzini
Date: Fri Dec 07 2018 - 08:53:06 EST
On 07/12/18 14:50, Juergen Gross wrote:
> The PVH boot entry is in the same bzImage binary as the normal one.
> Its just another entry, similar to the Xen PV boot entry. So the binary
> arch/x86/boot/bzimage can be booted either on bare metal via grub2 or
> other boot-loaders, as Xen PV-guest, as Xen PVH-guest, or as KVM
> PVH-guest. So one build and one binary. The non-standard boot entries
> (PV- or PVH-node) are found via ELF-notes by the boot loader (qemu in
> case of KVM).
>
But the bzImage is not an ELF binary, and it is compressed, isn't it?
/me is confused. :)
Paolo