From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Daniel De Graaf Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] xenconsoled: use grant references instead of map_foreign_range Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 11:58:48 -0500 Message-ID: <50F82DC8.4060704@tycho.nsa.gov> References: <1357838913-29968-1-git-send-email-dgdegra@tycho.nsa.gov> <1358441447.13856.94.camel@zakaz.uk.xensource.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1358441447.13856.94.camel@zakaz.uk.xensource.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Ian Campbell Cc: Stefano Stabellini , Ian Jackson , "xen-devel@lists.xen.org" List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On 01/17/2013 11:50 AM, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Thu, 2013-01-10 at 17:28 +0000, Daniel De Graaf wrote: >> This allows xenconsoled to be run in a domain other than dom0 if set up >> correctly - for libxl, the xenstore path /tool/xenconsoled/domid >> specifies the domain containing xenconsoled. > > Have I missed the patch which writes that path? > There is currently no patch which writes to that path; this would be done by the scripts that launch the domain that xenconsoled resides in. I don't think having xenconsoled write its domain ID to that path is useful - it would require waiting for the xenconsoled domain and daemon to start before building other guests, whereas writing the path from dom0 allows setting everything up first and letting xenconsoled catch up later. -- Daniel De Graaf National Security Agency