On Mon, 16 Aug 2010, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> Am 12.08.2010 16:09, schrieb stefano.stabell...@eu.citrix.com:
> > From: Anthony PERARD <anthony.per...@citrix.com>
> >
> > Add the Xen FV (Fully Virtualized) machine to Qemu;
> > this is groundwork to add Xen device model support in Qemu.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Anthony PERARD <anthony.per...@citrix.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabell...@eu.citrix.com>
>
> Why does this need its own machine type? Shouldn't an HVM machine really
> look like a PC? And indeed most of this code looks like a (slightly
> outdated) copy of pc_piix.c with !pci_enabled code paths removed.
The main reason is that we need some xen specific initializations, as you can
see from xen_init_fv.
But considering that we have been asked to remove target-xen and that
will cause a major refactoring of this series, xen_machine_fv could
change significantly in the next iterations anyway...