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Re: [Xen-devel] Announce: Xen userland for Windows PV drivers

To: Chris Smowton <cs448@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Announce: Xen userland for Windows PV drivers
From: chris <tknchris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 00:05:06 -0400
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seems like a windows dom0 isnt too far off :)

- chris

On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Chris Smowton <cs448@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Would there normally be a userland interface to the balloon driver? My
> (admittedly cursory) impression was that ballooning was an act coordinated
> between the guest kernel and the hypervisor / control domain. That would
> make it a matter entirely of concern to James' drivers.
>
> Looking at his Mercurial log, it seems he's been working on it just a few
> weeks ago -- see
> http://xenbits.xensource.com/ext/win-pvdrivers.hg?rev/aee3767c191d
>
> Chris
>>
>> Chris,
>>
>> Does this have memory ballooning support?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> AP
>>
>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: xen-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:xen-devel-
>>> bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Chris Smowton
>>> Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 12:21 PM
>>> To: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> Subject: [Xen-devel] Announce: Xen userland for Windows PV drivers
>>>
>>> Hey all,
>>>
>>> About 4-5 months ago, I wrote some userland libraries to go against
>>> James Harper's PV drivers for Windows Xen guests
>>> (http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenWindowsGplPv). These provide a
>>> Xenstore, event channel and userland page granting interface very
>>> similar to those provided to Linux apps. I sent patches to James some
>>> months ago, but hearing no feedback for some time I've pushed my
>>> patches
>>> to a Github repo.
>>>
>>> If anyone's interested in the code, it can be found at
>>> http://github.com/smowton/xen-pv-windows-evtchn
>>>
>>> Any questions please email cs448@xxxxxxxxx
>>>
>>> Chris
>>>
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