Re: [PATCH 8/9] xenstore: write xenstore domain data to xenstore

[Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>]

On Tue, 2015-12-15 at 13:34 +0100, Juergen Gross wrote:
> On 15/12/15 13:26, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > On Fri, 2015-12-11 at 16:47 +0100, Juergen Gross wrote:
> > > After starting the xenstore domain write the basic data (domid and
> > > name) to the xenstore.
> > > 
> > > Add a new option to init-xenstore-domain to be able to specify the
> > > domain's name.
> > 
> > Is all this enough to keep "xl list" etc happy?
> 
> I hope so. At least I didn't notice any problems.

Great. Please could you add "This makes the domain appear correctly in xl
list" or something similar.

> > Do we need to also create a dummy json object like we do for dom0
> > (init-
> > xen-dom0)?
> 
> Good question. Depends on what the dom0 json object is used for.

Mostly for various types of hotplug (irrelevant here I guess?) and reboot
(also irrelevant?).

Maybe also "xl list -v" or some other "look more closely" xl commands?

mem-set too perhaps?

Ian.

> BTW: I think I've found another detail missing:
> tools/hotplug/Linux/xendomains.in might need a tweak to avoid stopping
> the xenstore domain.
> 
> 
> Juergen