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

To:	"Chris Smowton" <cs448@xxxxxxxxx>, "AP Xen" <apxeng@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject:	RE: [Xen-devel] Announce: Xen userland for Windows PV drivers
From:	"James Harper" <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:	Fri, 11 Jun 2010 14:08:33 +1000
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> 
> 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
> 

Yes ballooning is working in the hg tree. Not well tested though.

James

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