On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 10:33:08PM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > On 07/08/2010 09:24 PM, Simon Horman wrote: > >> I think it would be a pretty large change. From the Xen's perspective, > >> any machine even approximately approaching the 2^44 limit will be > >> capable of running Xen guests in hvm mode, so PV isn't really a concern. > >> > > Hi Jeremy, > > > > Is the implication of that statement that HVM is preferred where > > supported by HW? > > > > I wouldn't go that far; the PV vs HVM choice is pretty complex, and > depends on what your workload is and what hardware you have available. > All I meant was what I said: that if you're running on a machine with a > large amount of memory, then you should run your 32-bit domains as HVM > rather than PV. Though Xen could easily keep domains limited to memory > that they can actually use (it already does this, in fact). Hi Jeremy, thanks for the clarification. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
