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From: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
To: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@suse.de>
Cc: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@bth.se>,
	Xen devel list <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC/patch] domain builder rewrite
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 08:54:33 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <448EC399.2070404@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <448EB8B5.5010205@suse.de>

Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>> I guess that the hypervisor really doesn't need to know about ELF
>> images at all? To me it seems that it should be enough for it to get a
>> suspended image built by the domain.
>>     
>
> It needs to know to bootstrap domain 0 only, all other domains are
> created by the tools, not the hypervisor itself.
>   

It always struck me as odd that we duplicated the domain builder code in 
both in userspace and in the hypervisor.  Have you given any thought of 
unifying the two?

I always thought it would be neat to have a hypercall that could build 
paravirt domains at least...

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> cheers,
>
>   Gerd
>
>   

  reply	other threads:[~2006-06-13 13:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-01 14:59 [RFC/patch] domain builder rewrite Gerd Hoffmann
2006-06-13 12:51 ` Simon Kagstrom
2006-06-13 13:08   ` Gerd Hoffmann
2006-06-13 13:54     ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2006-06-13 15:15       ` Gerd Hoffmann

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