Re: [PATCH] Make Xend use consoled and xc_console

[Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>]

Ian Pratt wrote:

>Gerd said it was deprecated, and he works for a distro so it must be
>true :-)
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>I'd go for /usr/lib/xen/bin
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>It would be good to do an audit of everything we install. I bet there's
>random crap in tools/misc that aren't really user tools and shouldn't be
>going in /usr/bin/ 
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Ok, I'll look into it.

>>I've not been able to reproduce it.  I had 50 domains running 
>>all cat'ing /dev/urandom and I was able to input/output large 
>>amounts of data without corruption to another domain.
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>Interesting. I've a T42 laptop runing a CentOS4 dom0 that it happens
>frequently on, but I haven't seen it on other machines..
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Sorry, I wasn't clear.  I haven't been able to reproduce it with the 
consoled code.  It happens quite frequently for me under the old Xend code.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

>>With that said though, I'm still not convinced it's fixed 
>>completely because I don't think xcs buffers everything 
>>correctly.  The new console drivers should do the trick 
>>though since we won't need to go through xcs.
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>Yep, hopefully.
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>Thanks,
>Ian
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