From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Anthony Liguori Subject: Re: Is there example code and/or documentation for developing a Xen back-end/front-end driver pair? Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 16:42:46 -0500 Message-ID: <44A054D6.5050309@us.ibm.com> References: <9E4997CB-BF83-4383-8F87-96E095769BB6@netapp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <9E4997CB-BF83-4383-8F87-96E095769BB6@netapp.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: Randy Thelen Cc: xen-devel List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Randy Thelen wrote: > Folks -- > > I'm walking through all the Xen Python code and driver code to > determine how to build a custom back-end/front-end driver pair. I'm > not using any of the existing transport types (blkif, netif, etc.). > So, I need to start from scratch supporting configuration file > elements in Xen down to the drivers in the kernel. > > If there are any good pointers as to how to build something new from > the ground up within the framework of the existing Xen Daemon and > be-fe pairing, I'd really like to read it. No. It has changed too many times (although it's probably stable enough now to document). In principle, once you have bring up working, making it work in Xend isn't so bad. Do you have specific questions or are you just looking for a where to begin? Regards, Anthony Liguori > -- Randy > > _______________________________________________ > Xen-devel mailing list > Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com > http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel