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RE: [Xen-devel] [RFC] Disable xen platform device when it is not needed.

To: 'James Harper' <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Yuji Shimada <shimada-yxb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] [RFC] Disable xen platform device when it is not needed.
From: "Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 12:36:07 +0800
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>From: James Harper
>Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 8:30 AM
>
>I'm also not sure that xen will boot without the disks being in ioemu
>mode, so using a non-ioemu disk for the situation where you want to use
>PV drivers will not give you a bootable system.
>

Anthony Liguori posted a pxeboot feature to allow booting from pv disk:
http://www.mailinglistarchive.com/xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg47004.html

Thanks,
Kevin
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