@@ -128,6 +128,10 @@ Output of information in machine-parseable JSON format
Status: Supported
+### QEMU backend hotplugging for xl
+
+ Status: Supported
+
## Toolstack/3rd party
### libvirt driver for xl
@@ -223,6 +227,152 @@ which add paravirtualized functionality to HVM guests
for improved performance and scalability.
This includes exposing event channels to HVM guests.
+## Virtual driver support, guest side
+
+### Blkfront
+
+ Status, Linux: Supported
+ Status, FreeBSD: Supported, Security support external
+ Status, NetBSD: Supported, Security support external
+ Status, OpenBSD: Supported, Security support external
+ Status, Windows: Supported
+
+Guest-side driver capable of speaking the Xen PV block protocol
+
+### Netfront
+
+ Status, Linux: Supported
+ States, Windows: Supported
+ Status, FreeBSD: Supported, Security support external
+ Status, NetBSD: Supported, Security support external
+ Status, OpenBSD: Supported, Security support external
+
+Guest-side driver capable of speaking the Xen PV networking protocol
+
+### PV Framebuffer (frontend)
+
+ Status, Linux (xen-fbfront): Supported
+
+Guest-side driver capable of speaking the Xen PV Framebuffer protocol
+
+### PV Console (frontend)
+
+ Status, Linux (hvc_xen): Supported
+ Status, Windows: Supported
+ Status, FreeBSD: Supported, Security support external
+ Status, NetBSD: Supported, Security support external
+
+Guest-side driver capable of speaking the Xen PV console protocol
+
+### PV keyboard (frontend)
+
+ Status, Linux (xen-kbdfront): Supported
+
+Guest-side driver capable of speaking the Xen PV keyboard protocol
+
+### PV USB (frontend)
+
+ Status, Linux: Supported
+
+### PV SCSI protocol (frontend)
+
+ Status, Linux: Supported, with caveats
+
+NB that while the PV SCSI backend is in Linux and tested regularly,
+there is currently no xl support.
+
+### PV TPM (frontend)
+
+ Status, Linux (xen-tpmfront): Tech Preview
+
+Guest-side driver capable of speaking the Xen PV TPM protocol
+
+### PV 9pfs frontend
+
+ Status, Linux: Tech Preview
+
+Guest-side driver capable of speaking the Xen 9pfs protocol
+
+### PVCalls (frontend)
+
+ Status, Linux: Tech Preview
+
+Guest-side driver capable of making pv system calls
+
+## Virtual device support, host side
+
+For host-side virtual device support,
+"Supported" and "Tech preview" include xl/libxl support
+unless otherwise noted.
+
+### Blkback
+
+ Status, Linux (xen-blkback): Supported
+ Status, FreeBSD (blkback): Supported, Security support external
+ Status, NetBSD (xbdback): Supported, security support external
+ Status, QEMU (xen_disk): Supported
+ Status, Blktap2: Deprecated
+
+Host-side implementations of the Xen PV block protocol
+
+### Netback
+
+ Status, Linux (xen-netback): Supported
+ Status, FreeBSD (netback): Supported, Security support external
+ Status, NetBSD (xennetback): Supported, Security support external
+
+Host-side implementations of Xen PV network protocol
+
+### PV Framebuffer (backend)
+
+ Status, QEMU: Supported
+
+Host-side implementaiton of the Xen PV framebuffer protocol
+
+### PV Console (xenconsoled)
+
+ Status: Supported
+
+Host-side implementation of the Xen PV console protocol
+
+### PV keyboard (backend)
+
+ Status, QEMU: Supported
+
+Host-side implementation fo the Xen PV keyboard protocol
+
+### PV USB (backend)
+
+ Status, QEMU: Supported
+
+Host-side implementation of the Xen PV USB protocol
+
+### PV SCSI protocol (backend)
+
+ Status, Linux: Experimental
+
+NB that while the PV SCSI backend is in Linux and tested regularly,
+there is currently no xl support.
+
+### PV TPM (backend)
+
+ Status: Tech Preview
+
+### PV 9pfs (backend)
+
+ Status, QEMU: Tech Preview
+
+### PVCalls (backend)
+
+ Status, Linux: Experimental
+
+PVCalls backend has been checked into Linux,
+but has no xl support.
+
+### Online resize of virtual disks
+
+ Status: Supported
+
# Format and definitions
This file contains prose, and machine-readable fragments.
Mostly PV protocols. Signed-off-by: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@citrix.com> --- Changes since v2: - Define "having xl support" as a requirement for Tech Preview and Supported - ...and remove backend from xl support section - Add OpenBSD blkback - Fix Linux backend names - Remove non-existent implementation (PV USB Linux) - Remove support for PV keyboard in Windows (Fix in qemu tree didn't make it) CC: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@citrix.com> CC: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com> CC: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com> CC: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> CC: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org> CC: Konrad Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> CC: Tim Deegan <tim@xen.org> CC: Roger Pau Monne <roger.pau@citrix.com> CC: Anthony Perard <anthony.perard@citrix.com> CC: Paul Durrant <paul.durrant@citrix.com> CC: Julien Grall <julien.grall@arm.com> --- SUPPORT.md | 150 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 150 insertions(+)