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From: Nivedita Singhvi <niv@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: xm-test domain creation delay
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 08:38:31 -0800
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Dan Smith wrote:
> EM> Here's an idea for xm-test.  Instead of waiting a full 20 seconds
> EM> for the guest domain to come up, we could instead write to the
> EM> store from inside the guest.
> 
> Yes, we definitely need to eliminate the 20-second delay for each

AMEN! We're hoping to add network tests into xm-test shortly,
and the overhead of domain creation for each trivial net test
is causing us some design conflicts.

Anything you can do on that front, Sean, will be much appreciated
and fully supported!

thanks,
Nivedita