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September 2017 OpenXT Community Call - Restored

September 2017 OpenXT Community Call - Restored

Nov 13, 2017

master (8.0.0)

  • Notes from feature discussion

    • UEFI (host and guest), Secure Boot for Windows 10

    • Kconfig - define minimal Xen config early in 8.0 dev cycle, so that testing & feature development are done on the minimized base

    • USB3 - no high-priority devices currently need USB3, USB-C ports are compatible

    • USB driver domain - of interest, will be investigated, not yet committed within 8.0 timeframe, Qubes has an implementation

    • HVM and SR-IOV driver domains - security benefits, see upstream Xen mailing list discussion (SUPPORT.md) about x86 PCI passthrough security

    • libvirt - needs scoping, starting point would be for Chris Rogers to create a wiki page which documents OpenXT Haskell toolstack functions that would need to be migrated to another toolstack, whether libvirt or something else.  There will always be some OpenXT-specific toolstack functions that are not provided by an existing toolstack like libvirt.  This is a big task, we need to create small prototypes to identity candidates for replacing subsets of Haskell code.

    • Hyper-V guest enlightenments - of interest, is available in Xen 4.9, can be an optional build configuration for OpenXT 8.0

    • Display manager & input server - no objection to the community introducing a new, optional, open-source display/input stack

    • Upstream OE - some 8.0 OpenXT features may appear first in upstream OpenEmbedded meta-virtualization (master), then get pulled into OpenXT

    • OE pyro uprev - work underway (Eric), making Haskell toolchain fixes

    • blktap3 - work underway, see https://openxt.atlassian.net/browse/OXT-1221 (Mahantesh)

    • nested virt (Hyper-V) - targeted for 8.0 release, no backport to stable-7