Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v8 1/7] xen/pvh: Split CONFIG_XEN_PVH into CONFIG_PVH and CONFIG_XEN_PVH | From | Juergen Gross <> | Date | Fri, 7 Dec 2018 14:58:48 +0100 |
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On 07/12/2018 14:52, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > On 07/12/18 14:50, Juergen Gross wrote: >> The PVH boot entry is in the same bzImage binary as the normal one. >> Its just another entry, similar to the Xen PV boot entry. So the binary >> arch/x86/boot/bzimage can be booted either on bare metal via grub2 or >> other boot-loaders, as Xen PV-guest, as Xen PVH-guest, or as KVM >> PVH-guest. So one build and one binary. The non-standard boot entries >> (PV- or PVH-node) are found via ELF-notes by the boot loader (qemu in >> case of KVM). >> > > But the bzImage is not an ELF binary, and it is compressed, isn't it? > /me is confused. :)
grub2 (and qemu, too) can decompress it. And the decompressed result "vmlinux" is an ELF-binary.
Juergen
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