xl: Document VGA problems arising from lack of physmap dmop
authorIan Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Fri, 6 Oct 2017 14:30:25 +0000 (15:30 +0100)
committerIan Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Wed, 11 Oct 2017 11:51:22 +0000 (12:51 +0100)
commit7d278e2115d084a5f78a512ae01ce946c10cff7d
treec3b7c1059077fb3d642c8f19b03af0a22fb260e7
parent52dd77ed9361ec32f96c4ccd86dbc29985522250
xl: Document VGA problems arising from lack of physmap dmop

Ross reports that stdvga guests do not work, and cirrus guests are
slow, because qemu tries to do xc_domain_add_to_physmap.  We will need
another dmop to fix this properly.

For now, document the problem.

(In the cirrus case, the vram remains mapped at the old guest-physical
addresses, while the guest runs.  We are not sure whether this is a
correctness or security problem and we should advise against it.)

Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Reported-by: Ross Lagerwall <ross.lagerwall@citrix.com>
CC: Ross Lagerwall <ross.lagerwall@citrix.com>
CC: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
CC: Paul Durrant <Paul.Durrant@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
docs/man/xl.cfg.pod.5.in