Re: Citrix Hypervisor 8.1 drops PV guest support

["Mathew, Cherry" <c%bow.st@localhost>]

On Fri, 2019-12-20 at 09:48 +0000, Stephen Borrill wrote:
> From:
> https://docs.citrix.com/en-us/citrix-hypervisor/whats-new.html
> 
> "Support for paravirtualized (PV) VMs has been removed in this
> release of 
> Citrix Hypervisor. XenCenter warns you during update or upgrade that
> PV 
> guests are no longer supported.
> 
> You can import existing VMs that use these operating systems into
> your 
> Citrix Hypervisor 8.1 installation. However, Citrix does not provide 
> support for VMs with these operating systems. Upgrade your VMs to a
> more 
> recent and supported version of the OS as soon as possible. For more 
> information, see Upgrade from PV to HVM guests."
> 
> Allegedly any PV VMs should continue to run, but they are living on 
> borrowed time.
> 
> How's PVHVM support going?
> 

Most of the icky bits are done. The xennet driver needs review in order
to make the domU useful. (Panic on traffic).

SMP is some way away (CPU vs. VCPU etc.)

I would say that if xennet(4) is fixed for PVHVM, we could have
something folks could usefully try.