Re: Various man pages related to Xen

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 06:20:43PM +0200, Jean-Yves Migeon wrote:
> Well, documentation for xenstore-* and xm commands pretty much
> depend on <insert your favorite search engine>.
> 
> I was not keen on making the man pages dependent on third party
> applications, especially for those that are expected to evolve in
> the future (xm vs xl, libvirt, stuff like that).

that's reasonable, especially as we may support different xen version
with different command sets in the future.

> 
> I just wanted a quick summary so that people stop asking about
> "what's the difference between xvif and tap for HVM?" "PCI
> passthrough?", etc.
> 
> >thanks for working on this !
> 
> np
> 
> Besides, is it fine to notify 5.1 as being "PCI passthrough"
> friendly, or 6.0 remains "officially" the first version to have PCI
> split drivers?

5.1 has PCI passthrough for dom0 and domU, so it's OK.

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