Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 3/3] x86/xen: use guest_late_init to detect Xen PVH guest

From: Juergen Gross
Date: Wed Nov 08 2017 - 09:17:41 EST


On 08/11/17 15:10, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
> On 11/08/2017 08:36 AM, Juergen Gross wrote:
>>
>> Regarding ACPI tables: current PVH implementation in Linux kernel
>> seems not to make use of the special information presented in the boot
>> information block.
>
> It will need to do so for dom0 (and, then, for simplicity, for all PVH
> guests).

What about: for all PVH guests booted via the PVH specific boot entry?
A guest booted via the default boot entry won't know it is PVH until
ACPI tables have been scanned.


Juergen