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Re: [Xen-users] Docs Explaining internals of Xen from programming perspe

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Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Docs Explaining internals of Xen from programming perspective
From: "Karsten M. Self" <kself@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 11:49:48 -0700
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on Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 12:11:51PM -0000, AMIT  KUMAR (amitkpce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) 
wrote:
>   hi,
>  Does anyone know of any document which explains internals of xen
>  (typically about creation of domains  from perspective of process
>  creation and system programming)? 
> 
>  The aim is to call xen api's in a program  to automate the process of
>  creation/shutdown/migration   of domains.

Perhaps the Xen Interface Manual?  Covers Xen 2.0, 3.x is a work in
progress.

    http://www.xensource.com/files/xen_interface.pdf

You're probably going to be most interested in Appendix A, "Xen
Hypercalls", particularly A.8, Inter-Domain Communication.


Cheers.

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Karsten M. Self <karsten@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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