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[Xen-devel] is a pure usermode backend possible?

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Subject: [Xen-devel] is a pure usermode backend possible?
From: "James Harper" <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 20:59:02 +1100
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Thread-topic: is a pure usermode backend possible?
Is there any reason why a purely user mode backend driver could not work
in Dom0? I believe that the xenstore, grant table, and event channel
interfaces all exist so I can't see why not, unless creating nodes under
/local/domain/0/backend might confuse something?

Assuming it's possible, are there any performance reasons or other
reasons why it might not be a good idea?

Thanks

James

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