For certain applications it is desirable to rapidly boot a KVM virtual
machine. In cases where legacy hardware and software support within the
guest is not needed, Qemu should be able to boot directly into the
uncompressed Linux kernel binary without the need to run firmware.
There already exists an ABI to allow this for Xen PVH guests and the ABI
is supported by Linux and FreeBSD:
https://xenbits.xen.org/docs/unstable/misc/pvh.html
This patch enables Qemu to use that same entry point for booting KVM
guests.
Signed-off-by: Maran Wilson <maran.wilson@oracle.com>
Suggested-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Suggested-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Tested-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Once hypervisors other than Xen start using the PVH entry point for
starting VMs, we would like the option of being able to compile PVH entry
capable kernels without enabling CONFIG_XEN and all the code that comes
along with that. To allow that, we are moving the PVH code out of Xen and
into files sitting at a higher level in the tree.
This patch is not introducing any code or functional changes, just moving
files from one location to another.
Signed-off-by: Maran Wilson <maran.wilson@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Maran Wilson