Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] libxl: No emulated disk driver for xvdX disk

[Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

George Dunlap writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] libxl: No emulated disk driver 
for xvdX disk"):
> If I then take the came config file and remove 'builder="hvm"', will the
> resulting thing boot as a PV guest?

I haven't tried this but I don't see why not.

> The real issue I guess is that there is "automatic" behavior here that
> we don't have a flag to control: PV disks get emulated counterparts
> automatically, and emulated disks get PV counterparts automatically.
> Would it make sense to have a per-device flag to specify this?
> mirror=(true|false|auto), where "auto" is the default?
> 
> If we can detect whether we're booting with SeaBIOS or OVMF, we can even
> have "auto" default to "false' for OVMF, and "true" for SeaBIOS (until
> such time as we have PV drivers in SeaBIOS).

I don't think this is helpful.

Ian.

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