KVM: x86: Allow Qemu/KVM to use PVH entry point
For certain applications it is desirable to rapidly boot a KVM virtual machine. In cases where legacy hardware and software support within the guest is not needed, Qemu should be able to boot directly into the uncompressed Linux kernel binary without the need to run firmware. There already exists an ABI to allow this for Xen PVH guests and the ABI is supported by Linux and FreeBSD: https://xenbits.xen.org/docs/unstable/misc/pvh.html This patch enables Qemu to use that same entry point for booting KVM guests. Signed-off-by: Maran Wilson <maran.wilson@oracle.com> Suggested-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Suggested-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> Tested-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
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