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From: Diego Ongaro <diego.ongaro@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 0/5] Grant table for console, xenstorepages
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:04:08 +0100
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Cihula, Joseph wrote:
> This has been looked at by others as well (I had a very similar set of
> internal patches that created a pre-dom0 domain but for running the vTPM
> Manager).  The trickiest part of deciding where and when to launch
> xenstore is that it is required for the paravirt drivers to communicate.
> So if you have any front ends, then xenstore needs to be running before
> they can connect to their back ends.

I'm launching the xenstore domain before starting any other domains and
before starting xend. I just had to make dom0's xenbus driver finish its
initialization later.

-Diego