I graduated in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge in 1994 and have been working on device drivers and kernels (generally in the networking subsystem) ever since. I spent many years in
Some recent patches to the QEMU source fix a long standing problem where the PV vkbd backend was unable to function correctly without the PV fb backend, which effectively made it pointless to implement PV HID (i.e. keyboard and mouse) frontends for HVM guests. Now that the problem has
It has long been the case that all HVM guests under Xen are provided with a PV console. You can attach to this console in the same way that you attach to the console of a PV guest, by typing in the control domain: xl console name_of_guest Until
by Paul Durrant Back in 2013 Citrix made XenServer fully open source. As part of that work the previously closed Windows drivers for paravirtual devices were opened up and made available to the community on GitHub. These drivers were still very much tied to XenServer though because of assumptions that