PVH dom0 is functionally very similar to PVH domU except for the domain builder and the added set of hypercalls available to it.
The main concern with declaring it "Supported" is the lack of some features when compared to classic PV dom0, hence switch it's status to supported with caveats. List the known missing features, there might be more features missing or not working as expected apart from the ones listed. Note there's some (limited) PVH dom0 testing on both osstest and gitlab. Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger....@citrix.com> --- Hopefully this will attract more testing an resources to PVH dom0 in order to try to finish the missing features. --- CHANGELOG.md | 1 + SUPPORT.md | 15 ++++++++++++++- 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md index 201478aa1c0e..1778419cae64 100644 --- a/CHANGELOG.md +++ b/CHANGELOG.md @@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/) - HVM PIRQs are disabled by default. - Reduce IOMMU setup time for hardware domain. - Allow HVM/PVH domains to map foreign pages. + - Declare PVH dom0 supported with caveats. - xl/libxl configures vkb=[] for HVM domains with priority over vkb_device. - Increase the maximum number of CPUs Xen can be built for from 4095 to 16383. diff --git a/SUPPORT.md b/SUPPORT.md index d5d60c62ec11..711aacf34662 100644 --- a/SUPPORT.md +++ b/SUPPORT.md @@ -161,7 +161,20 @@ Requires hardware virtualisation support (Intel VMX / AMD SVM). Dom0 support requires an IOMMU (Intel VT-d / AMD IOMMU). Status, domU: Supported - Status, dom0: Experimental + Status, dom0: Supported, with caveats + +PVH dom0 hasn't received the same test coverage as PV dom0, so it can exhibit +unexpected behavior or issues on some hardware. + +At least the following features are missing on a PVH dom0: + + * PCI SR-IOV and Resizable BARs. + + * Native NMI forwarding (nmi=dom0 command line option). + + * MCE handling. + + * PCI Passthrough to any kind of domUs. ### ARM -- 2.44.0
