Re: [ PATCH 2.6.16-rc3-xen 3/3] sysfs: export Xen hypervisor attributes to sysfs

Mike D. Day
2006-02-22T12:37:53Z

Heiko Carstens wrote:
>> You can also set the standard that any other hypervisor has to
>> follow! :)
>
> I doubt that there is much that different hypervisors can share.
> Why should all this be visible for user space anyway? What's the purpose?

In Xen at least, hypervisor management and control programs run in user
space in a "privileged" domain (or virtual machine). Systems management
agents in user space on the privileged domain need to know this
information, and sysfs is a good place to expose it.

Mike

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