Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2013 12:43:14 +0000 From: "Eggert, Lars" <lars@netapp.com> To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Roger_Pau_Monn=E9?= <roger.pau@citrix.com> Cc: "freebsd-xen@freebsd.org" <freebsd-xen@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Xen 4.2 PV fails to boot -CURRENT PV domU Message-ID: <DCD9F36F-8C86-476A-90A1-81957CD347D3@netapp.com> In-Reply-To: <522DBC2D.8050701@citrix.com> References: <455A20DD-3985-45EC-AC51-A3AFD33180F1@netapp.com> <522DB6A2.5050205@citrix.com> <C28354B7-1453-416A-9984-296BA9C76A0D@netapp.com> <522DBC2D.8050701@citrix.com>
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--Apple-Mail=_0645963A-9C06-40B3-A779-D2D6AEF5C0BA Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Hi, On Sep 9, 2013, at 14:16, Roger Pau Monn=E9 <roger.pau@citrix.com> wrote: > Performance will probably be better on most workloads with PVHVM if = you > have HAP (Intel's Extended Page Table or AMD's Nested Page Tables). = And > also, i386 PV port is limited to only one vcpu, while PVHVM will allow > you to use as many vcpus as you want. >=20 > PVHVM certainly has a higher resource requirement because it requires > you to have a Qemu instance for each running VM, but that process is > going to be idle most of the time (Qemu is mainly needed for booting). thanks for the explanation. Is there an ETA for when the PVHVM code will = be merged into the main -CURRENT tree? Lars --Apple-Mail=_0645963A-9C06-40B3-A779-D2D6AEF5C0BA Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org iQCVAwUBUi3CYNZcnpRveo1xAQIW+gP+OpAqoHIBYuvJc/xgMtve5SZfuVZwDTEo 7TBPDzMq5t3uhDlZhWXGRv4UblFb55j7CKeGgtadfZdLZe/HHpPcUHIGDAm+1TtM ICbFrozQjXftcRjxeZuOpfNISuKp7mQ98bnzygkbJP5byz/cv/1fJnAyyhjiXeZo NQEKurI7JBM= =nNlT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Apple-Mail=_0645963A-9C06-40B3-A779-D2D6AEF5C0BA--
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