Hello,
At 04:50 +0000 on 23 Mar (1300855830), Jordan Justen
wrote:> I work on the UEFI VM firmware project OVMF:
> http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/tianocore/index.php?title=OVMF
>
> We would like to add support for Xen in OVMF if we can. (Perhaps via
> a GSoC project.)
Superb! That would be very welcome.
> I see this Xen GSoC 2011 idea has some overlap with our OVMF goal:
> http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/GSoC_2011_ideas
> => ''EFI in HVM guests''
>
> OVMF currently only supports x86/x86-64 architectures. Does this
> match the Xen project''s needs for UEFI?
Yes, it does. I suspect that the changes to your current OVMF firmware
needed to support Xen shouldn''t bee too massive, and I''m happy
to help
answer questions abot what our current rombios does.
> Would it make sense for OVMF to attempt to take on a GSoC project for
> Xen support, or would the Xen project rather add this support
> separately? I guess my question is, would the Xen project consider
> using OVMF for UEFI support, or would it rather handle the UEFI
> firmware project itself?
We would almost certainly use OVMF as the base for any Xen UEFI firmware.
If you have students currently interested in adding Xen support as a
GSoC project, or would be interested in co-supervising a student, please
contact me off-list and we can work out the details.
Cheers,
Tim.
--
Tim Deegan <Tim.Deegan@citrix.com>
Principal Software Engineer, Xen Platform Team
Citrix Systems UK Ltd. (Company #02937203, SL9 0BG)
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