Re: [PATCH 3/9] xenstore: install init-xenstore-domain via make install

[Daniel De Graaf <dgdegra@tycho.nsa.gov>]

On 15/12/15 07:16, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Fri, 2015-12-11 at 16:47 +0100, Juergen Gross wrote:
>> The program init-xenstore-domain to start a xenstore domain instead
>> of the xenstored daemon is built, but not installed. Change that.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
>
> Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
>
> CCing Daniel too since he has an interest in this mode of operation.
>
> I appreciate the CONFIG_Linux thing is pre-existing, and stems from being
> unable to build stubdoms on other platforms, but should we consider
> building these supporting tools anyway, after all a user might get a
> suitable stubdom via some other means?

Yes, this is actually rather easy to do: compile the stubdom on Linux and
just copy the .gz over; starting a stubdom doesn't actually rely on using
the tool.

The reason this is linux-specific is that the IOCTL_XENBUS_BACKEND_SETUP
call on /dev/xen/xenbus_backend is (afaik) only implemented in Linux. If
this changes, or if it compiles anyway, then I see no problem.

-- 
Daniel De Graaf
National Security Agency