On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 07:58:40AM -0700, Brandon Philips wrote: > On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 6:18 AM, Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > - PV guests: there is no support for kexec at this time; > > Once I wrote an implementatation for that type of guests > > for one company but according to our agreement I could not > > publish this code; However, I could use it as a base for > > publicly available kexec implementation; Currently, I do > > not have any plans to work on this due to some more important > > stuff to do; However, question about kexec support for PV > > guests is raised from time to time and maybe this issue > > will be much more important than others once, > > To do kexec on PV guests is there a dependency on support from the dom0? No. > e.g. if we recreated your patches and merged them into 3.12 and booted > on a XenServer from a few years ago would it work? No. > What I want to do is use kexec on existing public cloud providers, > that use Xen, like AWS or Rackspace. Look for HVM or PVonHVM guests support in this providers. Sadly, there is no support for kexec on PV guests. Daniel _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
