Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [RFC] [PATCH] sysfs support for Xen attributes

["Mike D. Day" <ncmike@us.ibm.com>]

Dave Hansen wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 20:49 -0500, Mike D. Day wrote:
> 
> There are definitely things that are exceedingly helpful.  However,
> there are at least two other hypervisor-ish things that I can think of
> which do the exact same kinds of things.  Perhaps it would be helpful to
> collaborate with them and produce a common interface. (uml, s390, maybe
> some of the powerpc hypervisors)

yes, that is a good idea.

>>Can the domain be migrated to another physical host?
>>What scheduler is Xen using (xen has plug-in 
>>schedulers)? All the actual information resides within the xen 
>>hypervisor, not the linux kernel.
> 
> Other than debugging and curiosity, why are these things needed?

Debugging is always a good reason :) but I'm specifically thinking of 
systems management tools, deployment of virtual machines, and migration. 
All of these attributes are important for tools that manage, deploy, or 
migrate.

thanks,

Mike


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Mike D. Day
STSM and Architect, Open Virtualization
IBM Linux Technology Center
ncmike@us.ibm.com