September 2017 OpenXT Community Call - Restored

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 OXT-1221 - Getting issue details... STATUS (Mahantesh)
  • nested virt (Hyper-V) - targeted for 8.0 release, no backport to stable-7