[Intel-gfx] [RFC PATCH 0/8] Add host i915 support for vGPU

Gerd Hoffmann kraxel at redhat.com
Thu Oct 23 14:32:05 CEST 2014


  Hi,

> I guess from a really high level this boils down to having a xen-like
> design (where the hypervisor and dom0 driver are separate, but cooperate
> somewhat) or kvm (where the virtualization sits on top of a normal
> kernel). Afaics the kvm model seems to have a lot more momentum overall.

Funny I had the very same analogy in my mind ;)

And -- guess what -- power management is[1] one of the problem fields in
xen.

cheers,
  Gerd

[1] Or used to be? It's a while back I was more deeply involved in xen.





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