On 01/07/15 15:50, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-07-01 at 15:37 +0100, Julien Grall wrote:
>>> AFIACT the default is "offer the guest the hardware's native version".
>>
>> This is true when the domain is firstly created. But this will be
>> confusing if the user decide to migrate the guest to
On Wed, 2015-07-01 at 15:37 +0100, Julien Grall wrote:
> > AFIACT the default is "offer the guest the hardware's native version".
>
> This is true when the domain is firstly created. But this will be
> confusing if the user decide to migrate the guest to a platform where
> the native GIC is differ
On 01/07/15 14:52, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Julien Grall writes ("[v3 12/13] arm: Allow the user to specify the GIC
> version"):
>> A platform may have a GIC compatible with previous version of the
>> device.
> ...
>> +=item B
>> +
>> +Version of the GIC emulated for the guest. Currently, the followin
Julien Grall writes ("[v3 12/13] arm: Allow the user to specify the GIC
version"):
> A platform may have a GIC compatible with previous version of the
> device.
...
> +=item B
> +
> +Version of the GIC emulated for the guest. Currently, the following
> +versions are supported:
This documentation
A platform may have a GIC compatible with previous version of the
device.
This is allow to virtualize an unmodified OS on new hardware if the GIC
is compatible with older version.
When a guest is created, the vGIC will emulate same version as the
hardware. Although, the user can specify in the co
