Re: [Qemu-devel] [Xen-devel] [RFC PATCH V4 1/2] xen: pass kernel initrd to qemu

[Ian Campbell]

On Wed, 2014-07-02 at 20:34 -0600, Chun Yan Liu wrote:
> 
> >>> On 7/2/2014 at 11:16 PM, in message
> <address@hidden>, Ian Campbell
> <address@hidden> wrote: 
> > On Tue, 2014-07-01 at 15:06 +0800, Chunyan Liu wrote: 
> > > xen side patch to support xen HVM direct kernel boot: 
> > > support 'kernel', 'ramdisk', 'cmdline' (and 'root', 'extra' as well 
> > > which would be deprecated later) in HVM config file, parse config file, 
> > > pass -kernel, -initrd, -append parameters to qemu. 
> > >  
> > > It's working with qemu-xen when using the default BIOS (seabios). 
> > >  
> > > [config example] 
> > > kernel="/mnt/vmlinuz-3.0.13-0.27-default" 
> > > ramdisk="/mnt/initrd-3.0.13-0.27-default" 
> > > root="/dev/hda2" 
> > > extra="console=tty0 console=ttyS0" 
> >  
> > Is this example complete? I think it will create a PV guest which isn't 
> > what you are trying to demonstrate. 
> 
> This is a HVM example.

But none of the parameters given would cause it to be so, would they? I
think if you were to paste exactly that into a cfg file you would end up
with a PV guest.

Specifically it is missing: builder="hvm"

Ian.