Le Mardi 30 Mai 2006 17:41, Magenheimer, Dan (HP Labs Fort Collins) a écrit :
Transparent paravirtualization has little value to developers
or technology providers but definitely has value for distros
and software/system/support providers. Note for example
that Vmware's PVI (for x86) has transparent paravirtualization
because Vmware (the largest provider in the world of
virtualization software) considers it valuable.
I think it is also valuable for binary only device drivers. If we want those
drivers for xenolinux, it is a big plus.
[ I don't know if there are binary devices drivers for ia64, but there exist
at least for ia32].
My opinion: we should NOT give up this feature. The
recent VP patches are critical to catching up with
Xen/x86 functionality so we have to accept some short
term minor regressions for this. I think all other
patches (including event channel) should not be accepted
if they break transparent paravirtualization.
Too late for event channel ;-)
Tristan.
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