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Re: [Xen-devel] Re: Linux Stubdom Problem

To: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Tim Deegan <tim@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: Linux Stubdom Problem
From: Keir Fraser <keir.xen@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2011 14:11:45 +0100
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On 02/09/2011 14:09, "Stefano Stabellini" <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>> Why?  HVMloader is already tightly coupled to the hypervisor and the
>> toostack - special cases for stubdoms should be fine.
> 
> I think think that leaking the implementation details of the device
> model into hvmloader should be avoided, but obviously if there are no
> alternatives, it can be done.

This is a fair and more general point, that we don't want fragile
dependencies on qemu now that we are using upstream. But as I say that's a
more general point on our policy regarding qemu, rather than something
specifically concerning hvmloader.

 -- Keir



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