From: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
To: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>, Paul Durrant <paul.durrant@citrix.com>
Cc: Keir Fraser <keir@xen.org>,
Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>, Tim Deegan <tim@xen.org>,
Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>,
Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>,
xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 4/4] docs: Introduce xenstore paths for guest network address information
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2015 12:05:14 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <564C697A.7060406@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151118120015.GA12810@aepfle.de>
On 18/11/15 12:00, Olaf Hering wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 17, Paul Durrant wrote:
>
>> This patch documents paths to allow a domain to advertise an interface
>> name, MAC (unicast and multicast) and IP (version 4 and 6) address
>> information.
> How does the domU do that in practice?
> With some variant of xenstore-write or with the PV vif driver?
> Last time I tried to use xenstore* commands in domU it was unable to use
> relative paths, which forced me to specify the domid value for the
> paths. Might be a usage error on my side, or just a bug in the xenstore
> commands.
Where possible, the frontends themselves ought to be in charge of
keeping this information up to date.
This will reduce the dependence on an ancillary userspace component, and
make it less likely for the information to go stale.
~Andrew
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-11-18 12:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-11-17 11:32 [PATCH v5 0/4] docs: Document xenstore paths Paul Durrant
2015-11-17 11:32 ` [PATCH v5 1/4] docs: Introduce xenstore paths for PV control features Paul Durrant
2015-11-17 11:32 ` [PATCH v5 2/4] docs: Introduce xenstore paths for PV driver information Paul Durrant
2015-11-23 11:31 ` Ian Jackson
2015-11-17 11:32 ` [PATCH v5 3/4] docs: Introduce xenstore paths for hotplug features Paul Durrant
2015-11-23 11:32 ` Ian Jackson
2015-11-17 11:32 ` [PATCH v5 4/4] docs: Introduce xenstore paths for guest network address information Paul Durrant
2015-11-18 12:00 ` Olaf Hering
2015-11-18 12:04 ` Paul Durrant
2015-11-18 12:05 ` Andrew Cooper [this message]
2015-11-23 11:32 ` Ian Jackson
2015-11-24 16:53 ` [PATCH v5 0/4] docs: Document xenstore paths Ian Campbell
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