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xen-devel
Re: [Xen-devel] Enabling domU to create other domUs
 
 
 On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 12:25 PM, Derek Murray < Derek.Murray@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
Hi Hayawardh, 
 
 
If you did make your DomU privileged, this would make it privileged 
over all domains, which requires you to trust each DomU with this 
privilege. This is probably not acceptable from a security 
point-of-view. If you had the inclination, you could probably conjure 
up a Xen Security Module that enforced hierarchical privilege, but you 
would probably still have to modify the tools. 
  This is exactly what I have in mind. Can you just give me a few
additional pointers of what needs to be done with the tools, and the
hypervisor? 
  Thanks a lot!
  
If you simply want to be able to create domains from a DomU, have you 
considered installing xm in that domain and configuring it to use the 
instance of xend that runs in Dom0? 
 
Regards, 
 
Derek Murray. 
On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 6:14 PM, Hayawardh V < hayawardh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
> Hi, 
> 
> What changes would have to be made if I wanted to have a domU create VMs? 
> I tried installing the xen tools into a domU rootfs image, and then booted 
> the domU. However, xend refuses to start inside the domU. 
> 
> I realise the changes might be extensive, but I just want an idea of what 
> needs to be done. 
> 
> Also, I find that hardcoded checks like 
> if (current-> domain->domain_id != 0) 
> return -EPERM 
> are extremely few in the current hypervisor. 
> 
> Regards, 
> Hayawardh 
>
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