From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Wei Liu Subject: Re: Mini-OS as Dom0 Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 18:03:15 +0000 Message-ID: <20160223180315.GB23681@citrix.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Oleksii Kurochko Cc: talex5@gmail.com, Wei Liu , ian.campbell@citrix.com, xen-devel@lists.xen.org List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 07:38:15PM +0200, Oleksii Kurochko wrote: > Hello. > > Any updates? > > With best regards, > Oleksii > > 2016-02-09 14:23 GMT+02:00 Oleksii Kurochko : > > > Hello. > > > > I want to use Mini-OS as Dom0. > > > > What should be done for this purpose? > > Someone tried to do something like that? Maybe there are some patches. > > This is a really bold idea. I don't think anybody ever tries that. Let me explain. In a typical setup, Dom0 has many roles. It drives real hardware, it runs emulation (QEMU) for guest if necessary, it provides PV backends, and it also runs the toolstack for managing the whole platform. Depending on what you want to achieve, the workload to support the functionality of your choice varies. But I'm sure it is going to be significant even if you pick the easiest one. Wei. > > With best regards, > > Oleksii > > > _______________________________________________ > Xen-devel mailing list > Xen-devel@lists.xen.org > http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel