Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH for-4.5 v8 4/7] xen: Add vmware_port support

2015-01-28 Thread Don Slutz
On 01/28/15 17:47, Don Slutz wrote: > On 01/28/15 03:19, Jan Beulich wrote: > On 27.01.15 at 08:58, wrote: >> On 26.01.15 at 21:19, wrote: On 01/26/15 11:46, Jan Beulich wrote: > The delay is not in coding up this, but is that QEMU master (and now > xenbits's qemu staging) do not

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH for-4.5 v8 4/7] xen: Add vmware_port support

2015-01-28 Thread Don Slutz
On 01/28/15 03:19, Jan Beulich wrote: On 27.01.15 at 08:58, wrote: > On 26.01.15 at 21:19, wrote: >>> On 01/26/15 11:46, Jan Beulich wrote: As stated before - if feasible, 8 would seem the best option. The second best one would be to support all four I/O insns (assuming VM

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH for-4.5 v8 4/7] xen: Add vmware_port support

2015-01-28 Thread Jan Beulich
>>> On 27.01.15 at 08:58, wrote: On 26.01.15 at 21:19, wrote: >> On 01/26/15 11:46, Jan Beulich wrote: >>> As stated before - if feasible, 8 would seem the best option. The >>> second best one would be to support all four I/O insns (assuming >>> VMware supports all of them too) with any lega

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH for-4.5 v8 4/7] xen: Add vmware_port support

2015-01-26 Thread Jan Beulich
>>> On 26.01.15 at 21:19, wrote: > On 01/26/15 11:46, Jan Beulich wrote: >> As stated before - if feasible, 8 would seem the best option. The >> second best one would be to support all four I/O insns (assuming >> VMware supports all of them too) with any legal (even if pointless >> or redundant) p

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH for-4.5 v8 4/7] xen: Add vmware_port support

2015-01-26 Thread Don Slutz
On 01/26/15 11:46, Jan Beulich wrote: On 26.01.15 at 16:58, wrote: >> On 01/22/15 03:32, Jan Beulich wrote: >> On 21.01.15 at 18:52, wrote: On 01/16/15 05:09, Jan Beulich wrote: On 03.10.14 at 00:40, wrote: ... > > As stated before - if feasible, 8 would seem the best o

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH for-4.5 v8 4/7] xen: Add vmware_port support

2015-01-26 Thread Jan Beulich
>>> On 26.01.15 at 16:58, wrote: > On 01/22/15 03:32, Jan Beulich wrote: > On 21.01.15 at 18:52, wrote: >>> On 01/16/15 05:09, Jan Beulich wrote: >>> On 03.10.14 at 00:40, wrote: > + > +/* Only adjust byte_cnt 1 time */ > +if ( bytes[0] == 0x66 ) /* operan

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH for-4.5 v8 4/7] xen: Add vmware_port support

2015-01-26 Thread Don Slutz
On 01/22/15 03:32, Jan Beulich wrote: On 21.01.15 at 18:52, wrote: >> On 01/16/15 05:09, Jan Beulich wrote: >> On 03.10.14 at 00:40, wrote: This is a new domain_create() flag, DOMCRF_vmware_port. It is passed to domctl as XEN_DOMCTL_CDF_vmware_port. >>> Can you explain why a H

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH for-4.5 v8 4/7] xen: Add vmware_port support

2015-01-22 Thread Jan Beulich
>>> On 21.01.15 at 18:52, wrote: > On 01/16/15 05:09, Jan Beulich wrote: > On 03.10.14 at 00:40, wrote: >>> This is a new domain_create() flag, DOMCRF_vmware_port. It is >>> passed to domctl as XEN_DOMCTL_CDF_vmware_port. >> >> Can you explain why a HVM param isn't suitable here? >> > > T

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH for-4.5 v8 4/7] xen: Add vmware_port support

2015-01-21 Thread Don Slutz
On 01/16/15 05:09, Jan Beulich wrote: On 03.10.14 at 00:40, wrote: >> This is a new domain_create() flag, DOMCRF_vmware_port. It is >> passed to domctl as XEN_DOMCTL_CDF_vmware_port. > > Can you explain why a HVM param isn't suitable here? > The issue is that you need this flag during con

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH for-4.5 v8 4/7] xen: Add vmware_port support

2015-01-16 Thread Jan Beulich
>>> On 03.10.14 at 00:40, wrote: > This is a new domain_create() flag, DOMCRF_vmware_port. It is > passed to domctl as XEN_DOMCTL_CDF_vmware_port. Can you explain why a HVM param isn't suitable here? > This is both a more complete support then in currently provided by > QEMU and/or KVM and less