[Fedora-xen] Adding qemu disable pci devices patch to Fedora Xen

Pasi Kärkkäinen pasik at iki.fi
Mon Mar 2 09:42:53 UTC 2009


On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 08:27:14PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 09:12:35PM +0200, Pasi K?rkk?inen wrote:
> > Hello.
> > 
> > Would it be possible to add Qemu "disable pci devices" patch to Fedora Xen
> > packages? It allows HVM domains (or more specifically PV drivers running
> > in HVM domains) to hide qemu emulated disk/network devices in a sane way to
> > prevent possible corruption and other problems when both the PV devices and Qemu
> > emulated devices are present at the same time..  
> > 
> > It's mostly needed for Xen gplpv drivers by James Harper. The same
> > code/feature is also being used by Citrix/Xensource commercial Windows PV
> > drivers. 
> > 
> > The patch has been in xen-unstable (3.4) for a while already without
> > problems. 
> 
> Since its merged in xen-unstable & feedback seems positive, I've  no
> objections to it being added to the xen RPM in F11. 
> 

Ok, good.

Gerd: Could you apply that patch for the next Fedora Xen build? 

-- Pasi




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