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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Sysfs Interface for balloon driver

To: Satoshi Uchida <s-uchida@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Sysfs Interface for balloon driver
From: John Levon <levon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 16:20:06 +0100
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On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 12:00:36PM +0900, Satoshi Uchida wrote:

> In this time, it locate by following reason.
>   A balloon driver is similar to front-end driver.

Not really. Front-end drivers are real drivers, thus it makes sense for
them to appear to be attached to a bus, even if that bus is virtual.

> I feel that the term "hypervisor" means VMM in general.
> And a balloon exists for VM, and not for VMM.

I don't understand what you mean here.

> Therefore, I think that such information should not be located to 
> /sys/hypervisor.

Anyone else have an opinion?

> Should new location make for storing such (VM's) information ?
> For example, as following.
>   /sys/virtualization -+--- domain
>                              +--- hypervisor

Why would we need this? We already have xenstore for representing other
domain's information, and /sys/ is always specific to that particular
operating system instantiation.

regards
john

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