Re: [Xen-devel] ARM Guest VM Type

[Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 25 Apr 2014, Wei Huang wrote:
> According to enlighten.c in Kernel, ARM DomU is considered as HVM domain.
> However when the DomU is created, its property isn't configured to reflect
> this (XEN_DOMCTL_CDF_xxx) in tools. So is_hvm_domain(d) will return FALSE
> inside hypervisor.
> 
> Error?

It is not really an error, more an inconsistency. In reality the old
"PV" and "HVM" labels don't fit ARM guests very well.

From Linux POV it makes sense to think of ARM guests as HVM guests.
If it makes sense to do the same in Xen, then we might as well set the
flag.

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