Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] libxl: make vkbd tunable for HVM guests

2019-05-07 Thread Elnikety, Eslam
On 07.05.19, 15:17, "Wei Liu" wrote: On Tue, May 07, 2019 at 08:35:48AM +, Eslam Elnikety wrote: > Each HVM guest currently gets a vkbd frontend/backend pair (c/s ebbd2561b4c). > This consumes host resources unnecessarily for guests that have no use for > vkbd. Make this b

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] libxl: make vkbd tunable for HVM guests

2019-05-07 Thread Wei Liu
On Tue, May 07, 2019 at 08:35:48AM +, Eslam Elnikety wrote: > Each HVM guest currently gets a vkbd frontend/backend pair (c/s ebbd2561b4c). > This consumes host resources unnecessarily for guests that have no use for > vkbd. Make this behaviour tunable to allow an administrator to choose. The >

[Xen-devel] [PATCH] libxl: make vkbd tunable for HVM guests

2019-05-07 Thread Eslam Elnikety
Each HVM guest currently gets a vkbd frontend/backend pair (c/s ebbd2561b4c). This consumes host resources unnecessarily for guests that have no use for vkbd. Make this behaviour tunable to allow an administrator to choose. The commit retains the current behaviour -- HVM guests still get vkdb unles