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Fabio Fantoni
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Usage: hdtype=ide|ahci (default=ide) If hdtype=ahci adds ich9 disk controller in ahci mode and uses it with upstream qemu to emulate disks instead of ide. It doesn't support cdroms which still using ide (cdroms will use "-device ide-cd" as new qemu parameter) Ahci requires new qemu parameter but for now other emulated disks cases remains with old ones (I did it in other patch, not needed by this one) I did it as libxl parameter disabled by default to avoid possible problems: - with save/restore/migration (restoring with ahci a domU that was with ide instead) - windows < 8 without pv drivers (a registry key change is needed for AHCI<->IDE change FWIK to avoid possible blue screen) - windows XP or older that many not support ahci by default. Setting AHCI with libxl parameter and default to disabled seems the best solution. AHCI increase hvm domUs boot performance. On linux hvm domU I saw up to only 20% of the previous total boot time, whereas boot time decrease a lot on W7 domUs for most of boots I have done. Small difference in boot time compared to ide mode on W8 and newer (probably other xen improvements or fixes are needed not ahci related) Signed-off-by: Fabio Fantoni <fabio.fantoni@m2r.biz> Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com> [ ijc -- adjust name of LIBXL_HAVE #define as discussed on list, fixup pod syntax in xl.cfg.pod.5 ]