From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Anthony Liguori Subject: Re: x2d2 Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 08:11:10 -0600 Message-ID: <41EE6A7E.3030602@codemonkey.ws> References: <41EDC398.8090700@diku.dk> <41EDFF10.301@codemonkey.ws> <41EE2F56.6090304@diku.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: xen-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: xen-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: andrew.warfield@cl.cam.ac.uk, xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Andrew Warfield wrote: >We are in the process of some fairly major revisions to the control >tools. I think that the general expectation is that 3.0 will show >some pretty big changes to the control interfaces and tools. The >unstable tree now has a control switch (xcs) which sits under xend and > > Wow. I wrote the same exact thing about a week or two ago. I took a slightly different approach though. I opened a unix domain socket to receive messages on and also opened up ptys for each domain. The daemon takes care of multiplexing and demultiplexing the messages so if your app sends a message, it will only get that response. What are your thoughts on this approach? I particularly like the idea of piping the console data to a pty. Regards, >allows other applications to be written to use the control channels >without needing to modify xend. We are hoping to move towards small, >single-purpose management tools in dom0. > >This should all start to appear in the unstable tree over the next >couple of months. > > > -- Anthony Liguori anthony@codemonkey.ws ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. It's fun and FREE -- well, almost....http://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt