Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC v13 03/20] Introduce pv guest type and has_hvm_container macros

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2013-09-26 at 12:53 +0100, Tim Deegan wrote:

> A PVH guest is basically a HVM guest that starts with paging enabled and
> uses event channel instead of virtual APIC.
> 
> I'm not sure this needs any special treatment from Xen.  We can supply a
> PVH guest with an APIC and if it never uses it, fine.

It's not entirely out of the questions that hardware APIC virtualisation
might change that trade off before too long...

Don't hvm guests have an apic=0 setting anyway?



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