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RE: RE: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen-2.0: privileged port connections

To: "Kurt Garloff" <kurt@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: RE: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen-2.0: privileged port connections
From: "Ian Pratt" <m+Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 22:16:57 -0000
Cc: "Xen development list" <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Anthony Liguori" <aliguori@xxxxxxxxxx>, <ian.pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Thread-topic: RE: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen-2.0: privileged port connections
> > Perhaps a better way to handle consoles would be to use 
> 'screend', and
> > then have incoming ssh connections dispatched to particular screen
> > sessions.
> 
> screen is what is commonly used to handle many (mostly 
> serial) consoles
> these days, so hooking into that is certainly something most sysadmins
> would consider a natural choice.

I think we've got resounding agreement on using screen.
 
> > > > 5) you still have to deal with xfrd
> > > 
> > > It seems to listen on *:8002 ... 
> > > Is there no authentication either? Sigh.
> > > 
> > > And we probably need to look into the event channel 
> (8001) as well.
> > 
> > Xfrd needs an option to listen only on localhost. (It's 
> still needed for
> > save/restore even if you don't use migrate).
> 
> We could just pass it an option during startup.

Yep, though it should be configurable from the xend config.

> > The event channel only ever needs to be localhost (and 
> could probably be
> > turned into a unix domain socket quite easily).
> 
> Sounds good. Let's do it.

Keep those patches coming! :-)

Thanks,
Ian


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