Re: [Xen-devel] q35 support in Xen

2017-06-27 Thread Jason Dickens
Hello Anthony, See my response below. Jason On 6/27/2017 12:36 PM, Anthony PERARD wrote: On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 10:19:26AM +0100, Wei Liu wrote: CC Anthony and Stefano On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 01:55:56PM -0400, Jason Dickens wrote: I would like to inquire about q35 support in Xen? As far

[Xen-devel] q35 support in Xen

2017-06-26 Thread Jason Dickens
I would like to inquire about q35 support in Xen? As far as I have been able to tell, this has not been done? In the Xen version that I've been working with (4.4), libxl_dm overrides any "-machine" argument I try to pass to QEMU with "-machine xenfv". (it appears this still existing in the last

[Xen-devel] Crash w/ bios="ovmf"

2017-02-22 Thread Jason Dickens
I'm trying to find a solution to an immediate VM crash which occurs by simply adding "bios='ovmf' to my configuration? I started with a standard Ubuntu install which contained Xen 4.6.0 and had the crash. The VM works fine booting w/ SeaBIOS once the configuration line is removed. It also work

Re: [Xen-devel] Adding new custom devices to Xen via QEMU

2016-09-30 Thread Jason Dickens
On 9/30/2016 3:47 PM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 03:20:09PM -0400, Jason Dickens wrote: Thanks Konrad, [CC-ing Xen-devel again.] I think you and David have successfully answered my question and pointed me to the key code. I have already verified that the device

Re: [Xen-devel] Adding new custom devices to Xen via QEMU

2016-09-30 Thread Jason Dickens
reasons for the address chosen, and it works on other hypervisors (e.g. KVM) so although it might be easiest to change the address I really don't want to unless its the only way to keep from a Xen modification entirely. Jason On 9/30/2016 9:53 AM, David Vrabel wrote: On 30/09/16 14:35,

Re: [Xen-devel] Adding new custom devices to Xen via QEMU

2016-09-30 Thread Jason Dickens
s, Jason P.S. Regarding device_model_args= I'm already using this and QEMU seems quite satisfied as the device is realized as expected it simply doesn't receive verified MMIO accesses for the device. On 9/30/2016 7:33 AM, Wei Liu wrote: Hello On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 09:35:21AM

[Xen-devel] Adding new custom devices to Xen via QEMU

2016-09-29 Thread Jason Dickens
Hello, My name is Jason Dickens and I'm a Research Scientist here at GrammaTech. Some of our research involves securing hypervisors and we have needed to add to and/or modify Xen. I have been successful in modifying the source for various purposes, but my question now is about device