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From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: Q on shared_mem and event_channel
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2011 18:12:47 -0500
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On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 03:05:31PM -0800, ravi kerur wrote:
> Thanks Konrad, couple of q's
> 
> 1. will this work with xenserver 5.6.0(citrix)? reason being, it uses
> /dev/xen/gntalloc and /dev/xen/gtndev  and I don't see these devices in
> xenserver 5.6.0 dom0 and I don't see similar devices in xenserver 5.6.0

You will have to back-port them to it.
> 
> 2. I might be able to use this functionality in conjunction with socket
> calls, do you see any reason not to do it? Basically in my case I want to
> have shared_mem/evt_chn setup either during bootup of dom0/domU's or when my
> application is started.

Well, that requires much more than the patches I mentioned. I think Citrix
might have some off-the-shelf code that does it. Ask on the Xapi mailing list.