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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] new nomigrate config option

To: Tim Deegan <Tim.Deegan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] new nomigrate config option
From: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:31:39 +0100
Cc: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@xxxxxxxxxx>, "Xen-Devel \(E-mail\)" <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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On 20/10/2009 10:14, "Tim Deegan" <Tim.Deegan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>>> Can you please use Xenstore for that?  There's no reason for the
>>> hypervisor to be involved, since all the enforcememnt is in the tools.
>> 
>> I suspect Dan wants to interrogate this flag from unprivileged domU
>> userspace, with no domU kernel modifications.
> 
> In that case all that's needed is a user-space xenbus client. :)

Is that all. :-)

I plan to see how this userspace hypercall stuff goes and at the end of the
day, if/when we don't like it, it's going to be very easy to disable.

 -- Keir



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