From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Vincent Hanquez Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Is it possible to access XenStore remotely? Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 17:13:27 +0100 Message-ID: <4A92BC27.8060905@eu.citrix.com> References: <4A8D1650.4040902@eu.citrix.com> <1251118999.5532.84.camel@localhost.localdomain> <19090.47695.114710.46450@mariner.uk.xensource.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <19090.47695.114710.46450-msK/Ju9w1zmnROeE8kUsYhEHtJm+Wo+I@public.gmane.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-api-bounces-GuqFBffKawuULHF6PoxzQEEOCMrvLtNR@public.gmane.org Errors-To: xen-api-bounces-GuqFBffKawuULHF6PoxzQEEOCMrvLtNR@public.gmane.org To: Ian Jackson Cc: "xen-devel-GuqFBffKawuULHF6PoxzQEEOCMrvLtNR@public.gmane.org" , "echo-Czp0qWhDxZq1SnRDb8oMDQ@public.gmane.org" , "xen-api-GuqFBffKawuULHF6PoxzQEEOCMrvLtNR@public.gmane.org" List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Ian Jackson wrote: > Tim Post writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] Is it possible to access XenStore remotely?"): > >> I would warn you, XenStore is fragile and often fickle, I've crashed it >> many times within a guest while working on split drivers for various >> character devices. >> > > If xenstored can be crashed then we should fix it. Can you remember > any of the things which caused it to fall over ? > or we could just install the ocaml implementation by default. it has already proven to be a lot better security wise. (it's still interesting to know what caused the crash, so we can probably add that to some kind of harness) -- Vincent