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From: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC/patch] domain builder rewrite
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 08:54:33 -0500
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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
>
>