From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Anthony Liguori Subject: Re: question on xenbus priv in dom0 Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2005 12:44:37 -0500 Message-ID: <4342BF85.3010401@us.ibm.com> References: <5d7aca950510040927o2c5cb38dx19e0c49797ec3653@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <5d7aca950510040927o2c5cb38dx19e0c49797ec3653@mail.gmail.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: NAHieu Cc: xen-devel List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org NAHieu wrote: >Hi, > >In domU, we can't use xenbus to access anything outside of the >domain's home. That means we are being restricted from reading/writing >to other domain's xenstore. That is perfectly fine, and nobody >complains here. > >But in dom0, do we have the exception? Since dom0 is trusted, I think >we can be allowed to access to all other domU's xenstore. > >Is that possible? If not, any good workaround solution? > > It should be possible to read from anywhere in the store. If you specify a path without a '/' in the beginning, it defaults to reading from the domain's home directory. However, if you use a fully qualified path, you should be able to read anywhere. If this doesn't work, it's a bug. Regards, Anthony Liguori >Thank you. >Hieu > >_______________________________________________ >Xen-devel mailing list >Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com >http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel > > >